from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
transitive verb To censure strongly; denounce.
transitive verb To criticize (something) harshly.
transitive verb To tear, scrape, or wear off (the skin).
from The Century Dictionary.
To flay; strip off the skin of.
Hence To abrade; gall; break and remove the outer layers of (the skin) in any manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
transitive verb 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
verb transitive To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
verb transitive To strongly denounce or censure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
verb express strong disapproval of
verb tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English excoriaten, from Latin excoriāre, excoriāt- : ex-, ex- + corium, skin; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Late Latin excoriātus, perfect participle of Latin excoriō ("take the skin or hide off, flay"). from ex ("off") + corium ("hide, skin").
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Examples
So perhaps the best advice for those who want to justify this or claim that others are being too militant and yes, some are likely being too pushy and thus come across as being little more than mirror images of those they want to excoriate is to just stop settling and just continue exploring.
If all the clowns who excoriate Keynes just because some ignorant dogmatist told them to, would actually go read the General Theory (which is exceptionally lucidly written), perhaps they might begin to understand why.
But I suspect most pro-life people would willingly swap the lives of the babies for the insensitivity: feel free to excoriate us but don't sign the executive order at all.
But I suspect most pro-life people would willingly swap the lives of the babies for the insensitivity: feel free to excoriate us but don't sign the executive order at all.
skipvia commented on the word excoriate
Partial rhyme with decorate. Other than that, I don't know why it popped into my head. See Free Association.
February 4, 2008
TrueObsession14 commented on the word excoriate
EXTREMELY strong!!!! HHKJASG;NDSK;HJBR HFDKDJGHUJUKGVJND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 24, 2015