To wound or injure by rending; to lacerate.

transitive. To tear roughly; to cut (esp. flesh or tissue) with deep irregular incisions; to slice; (hence) to tear apart, to rip up.

transitive. To hack, cut, lacerate, or †mutilate (a person or animal) by repeated blows; to reduce (a body, limb, etc.) by violence to a more or…

transitive. To wound mutually by laceration; to attack (one another) by tearing or rending.

To tear, lacerate, wound (physically).