What does excorticate mean?
Excorticate means (archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin..
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/ɪkˈskɔː(ɹ)tɪkeɪt/ · verb
(archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin..
Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]
The sap-wood of the excorticated winter-felled timber, kept in piles in his Majesty's yards, has rotted
His mouth was dry and parched; his hands red and swollen, and looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.
Use excorticate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Excorticate means (archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin..
Common synonyms include decorticate, delibrate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]
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