Excoriate

Quick meaning: Excoriate is a verb meaning (transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.

Meaning

(transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To strongly condemn or criticize.
3. (as a participle) Excoriated.

Example Sentences

If the bowelles be excoriate, ye shall gyue thys peculier remedy.

The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.

Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.

The tabloids branded him forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.

Word Forms

• excoriates
• excoriating
• excoriated

Synonyms for excoriate

Depending on context, synonyms include excarnate, abrade, chafe, flay, denounce, disparage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decry, objurgate, condemn, abrade, assail, flay.

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