Definition of "lacerating" []

• Present participle of lacerate. (verb)

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• "I wake up most mornings with a new name lacerating my head like a rusty scalpel."
• "He had a fierce and domineering temper, and indeed out of his strangely bright blue eyes there was already beginning to shine only too ominously the wild light of that _saeva indignatio_ which the inscription drawn up by his own hand for his tomb described as lacerating his heart."
• "If there is rather too much of the _saeva indignatio_, which Swift speaks of as lacerating his heart, it is a nobler and less selfish ire than his, and the language and verse which it inspires are full of the very soul of dignity."