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laceration

noun
/læsəˈɹeɪʃən/

Definitions

  1. An irregular open wound to soft tissue.

    • The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.
    • Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.

  2. The act of lacerating or tearing, either literally or figuratively.

    • Why the founders of St. Merryn's Hospital chose to erect their institution at a main-road crossing upon a valuable office site, and thus expose their patients' nerves to constant laceration, is a foible that I never properly understood.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at laceration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at laceration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at laceration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA