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evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) wrote:
I have no idea where Irby found the word "dilacerated".
From a dictionary? It's in the latest edition of Chambers: dilacerate /di-las'?r-at/ transitive verb To rend or tear asunder
ORIGIN: L di- asunder, and lacerate
Though saying it's in Chambers doesn't mean it's a common word found in
the general vocabulary. Chambers is the recommended dictionary for the
Azed crossword in The Observer, a Sunday paper. The answers to last
week's puzzle have just been published. Included were: CUSK, another
name for the torsk; STROOKE, an archaic form of strike; and HOGH,
Spenser's spelling of hoe, a promontory.
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