excoriate
verb/ɪkˈskɔːrieɪt/
/ɪkˈskɔːrieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excoriate | /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪt/ /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪt/ |
| he / she / it excoriates | /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪts/ /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪts/ |
| past simple excoriated | /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪd/ /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle excoriated | /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪd/ /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form excoriating | /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪŋ/ /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪtɪŋ/ |
- excoriate something (medical) to make a person’s skin painful, and often red, so that it starts to come off
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- excoriate somebody/something (formal) to criticize somebody/something severely
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin excoriat- ‘skinned’, from the verb excoriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + corium ‘skin, hide’.
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