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Lancinating vs Lacerating - What's the difference?

lancinating | lacerating |

As verbs the difference between lancinating and lacerating

is that lancinating is while lacerating is .

As an adjective lancinating

is (especially of pain) sharp, stabbing or piercing.

lancinating

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (especially of pain) Sharp, stabbing or piercing.
  • * 1979 , Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber , Vintage 2006, p. 96:
    • the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approach of winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezes it tight.

    lacerating

    English

    Verb

    (head)