Bludgeon vs Lacerate - What's the difference?
bludgeon | lacerate |
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
To tear, rip or wound.
To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
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(botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
As verbs the difference between bludgeon and lacerate
is that bludgeon is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club while lacerate is to tear, rip or wound.As a noun bludgeon
is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.As an adjective lacerate is
(botany) jagged, as if torn or lacerated.bludgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .
See also
* truncheonVerb
(en verb)- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Synonyms
* (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummelDerived terms
* bludgeonerReferences
*lacerate
English
Verb
(lacerat)citation, page= , passage=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.}}
Adjective
(-)- The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.