Excoriate
[ɪk'skɔːrɪeɪt;eks-] or [,ɛks'kɔrɪet]
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Flay, skin, gall, strip the skin from.
Checker: Micawber
Definition
v.t. to strip the skin from.—n. Excoriā′tion the act of excoriating: the state of being excoriated.
Typist: Montague
Examples
- Mr Boffin took his nose in his hand, as if it were already excoriated, and the sparks were beginning to fly out of that feature. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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