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   Ex·co·ri·ate

   /ikˈskôrēˌāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. censure or criticize severely: formal "the papers that had been excoriating him were now lauding him"
   • 2. damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin). Similar abraderub awayrub offrub rawscrapescratchchafedamagestrip awaypeel awayskintechnical:decorticate

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin excoriat- ‘skinned’, from the verb excoriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + corium ‘skin, hide’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. excoriation noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

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