What does excoriate mean?
Excoriate means (transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
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/ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt/ · verb
(transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.
Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
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.
Police are under pressure to accelerate the criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire after an excoriating report found that companies operated with “systematic dishonesty” and that all 72 deaths were avoidable.
If the bowelles be excoriate, ye shall gyue thys peculier remedy.
Use excoriate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Excoriate means (transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
Common synonyms include excarnate, abrade, chafe, flay.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.
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