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Excoriate   /ɛkskˈɔriˌeɪt/   Listen
Excoriate

verb
(past & past part. excoriated; pres. part. excoriating)
1.
Express strong disapproval of.  Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate.  "These ideas were reprobated"
2.
Tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading.  Synonym: chafe.






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"Excoriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... monstrous dinners and was usually hilarious with wine. Harel, it must be mentioned, was a very penurious man, who never paid his people when he could postpone it, and whose meanness of soul Lemaitre delighted to excoriate. Often when dining bountifully at his restaurant, the actor being sent for in hot haste with the intelligence that the curtain was just going up, would cry, "Diable! And I haven't a sou in my pocket! Here's the bill. Carry it to Harel, and ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various



Words linked to "Excoriate" :   abrade, abrase, rub down, rub off, excoriation, chafe, objurgate, corrade, reprobate, condemn, decry, denounce



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