So imagine you're slicing a nice garlic-cheese bagel one morning, and you lacerate the distal phalanx of your pollex — in other words, you cut the tip of your thumb.
Julien's departure did not in any way bring to an end those ecstacies which thrilled her in spite of herself, and those troubles of remorse which lacerated her.
She had only a bruise or two about her, —nothing for a tramp, —but the backs of her hands were lacerated, and the question was, Was it with finger-nails?
The answer was a blank which Rosamond could only fill up with dread, for Will Ladislaw's lacerating words had made every thought of Dorothea a fresh smart to her.
" What was the other thing you wanted to tell me" ? " What! You change the subject when I am baring a loving but lacerated heart? Well, the other thing is this" .
" They were the new Charles and Diana, " says his friend and former team-mate Gary Neville, a perceptive description of a couple who, like the ill-starred royals, were both lionised and lacerated by the media.
I softened considerably what related to the three days of wandering and starvation, because to have told him all would have been to inflict unnecessary pain: the little I did say lacerated his faithful heart deeper than I wished.