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Bludgeon vs Lacerate - What's the difference?

bludgeon | lacerate |

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)
  • A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
  • We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .

    See also

    * truncheon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
  • The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
  • To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
  • Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.

    Synonyms

    * (to club) cudgel * (coerce) harrass, pummel

    Derived terms

    * bludgeoner

    References

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    lacerate

    English

    Verb

    (lacerat)
  • To tear, rip or wound.
  • To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian 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

    (-)
  • (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
  • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
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