lacerate

verb

1. (transitive)To tear, rip or wound.

   “Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed”

2. (figuratively, transitive)To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.

   “When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.”

adj

1. (not-comparable, obsolete)Mangled, torn, lacerated.

   “But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;”

2. (not-comparable)Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

   “The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.”