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verb (excoriat, ing) (transitive)
- To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
- To strongly renounce or censure.
- 2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, p. 464 (2005 Trade paperback edition, ISBN 0-345-45842-7) -- Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiesence.
- 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/nyregion/13york.html?hp&ex=1158206400&en=39997b7802ea8b0b&ei=5094&partner=homepage New York Times Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo"s ethics, ...
Translations: Etymology: From Late Latin excoriatus, past participle of excoriare, to take the skin or hide off, to flay (literally and figuratively. From the Latin excoriare "to flay"; ex- "off" + corium "skin"
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