Lacerate

If you don't wear protective clothing, the sharp leaves will lacerate your skin.

Her letters lacerate my heart, flay it wide open bleeding - yet I read every word.

By a microscope, the bug will be seen to have eight legs, two feelers, and an abdomen something egg-shaped; colour livid red; and in size no bigger than the point of a small needle. They lacerate the epidermis in some way or other, as a small hole is observable where they have been seated; and cause extreme itching and considerable inflammation of the part.

I'll seize you and lacerate you!

Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed

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.

But as they detrected the doing of theyr duetie, so god euer graunted vnto this realme force to compell them thervnto within memory, not withstandyng any theyr interruption by resistence, which vnto the tyme of our progenitour Henry the VI. neuer indured so longe as it made intermission within tyme of mynde, wherby the possession myght seme to be enpaired: from the tyme of Henry the VI vnto the seuenth yere of our reigne, how our realme hathe ben for a season lacerate and torne by diuersitie of titles, tyl our time and syns by warre outwardly vexed and troubled, The story is so lamentable for some parte therof, as were tedious to reherse.

But who can gaze Upon that other form, which on the rood In agony is stretched?... his hands transfixed, And lacerate with the body's pendent weight;

The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.