lacérer
French, verb/la.se.ʁe/
lacérer is spelled L-A-C-É-R-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 11 million words in written French, the 107,057th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Lacérer is a French verb meaning “lacerate (to tear, rip or wound)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Déchirer un écrit, un livre”.
What does lacérer mean in English?
verb
- 1
lacerate (to tear, rip or wound)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Déchirer un écrit, un livre. 2. Mettre en lambeaux.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of lacérer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- lacérant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- lacéré participle past
- lacère first-person indicative present
- lacères indicative present second-person
- lacérons first-person indicative plural
- lacérez indicative plural present
- lacèrent indicative plural present
- lacérais first-person imperfect indicative
- lacérait imperfect indicative singular
- lacérions first-person imperfect indicative
- lacériez imperfect indicative plural
- lacéraient imperfect indicative plural
- lacérai first-person historic indicative
- lacéras historic indicative past
- lacéra historic indicative past
- lacérâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce lacérer?
- /la.se.ʁe/
- \la.se.ʁe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to lacérer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is lacérer in French?
lacérer appears about once in every 11 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).