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Webster 1913 Edition


Excoriate

Ex-co′ri-ate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Excoriated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
excoriating
.]
[L.
excoriare
;
ex
out +
corium
hide. cf.
Scourge
; see
Cuirass
.]
To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

Webster 1828 Edition


Excoriate

EXCO'RIATE

,
Verb.
T.
[Low L. excorio; ex and corium, skin, hide.]
To flay; to strip or wear off the skin; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

Definition 2024


excoriate

excoriate

English

Verb

excoriate (third-person singular simple present excoriates, present participle excoriating, simple past and past participle excoriated)

  1. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
  2. (transitive) To strongly denounce or censure.
    • 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, 2005 Trade paperback ed., ISBN 0-345-45842-7. p. 464:
      Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
    • 2006, Patrick Healy "Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary," New York Times, 13 Sep. (retrieved 7 Oct. 2008):
      Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.

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Latin

Verb

excoriāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of excoriō