excoriate

ex·co·ri·ate

E0267200 (ĭk-skôr′ē-āt′)tr.v. ex·co·ri·at·ed, ex·co·ri·at·ing, ex·co·ri·ates 1. a. To censure strongly; denounce: "preparing to excoriate him for his insufficient preparations" (Neil Bascomb).b. To criticize (something) harshly: "After excoriating the vapid culture of movie-star worship ... he's ended up at that trough" (Maureen Dowd).2. To tear, scrape, or wear off (the skin).

[Middle English excoriaten, from Latin excoriāre, excoriāt- : ex-, ex- + corium, skin; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

ex·co′ri·a′tion n.ex·co′ri·a′tor n.Usage Note: Traditionally, one excoriates people, not things, but in recent years the verb has been given a wider variety of objects, and the Usage Panel does not object. In our 2002 survey, 83 percent of the Panel accepted the sentence The party's national convention and its platform were excoriated by a contemptuous press, where the verb acts upon products of human effort.

excoriate

(ɪkˈskɔːrɪˌeɪt) vb (tr) 1. to strip (the skin) from (a person or animal); flay2. (Medicine) med to lose (a superficial area of skin), as by scratching, the application of chemicals, etc3. to denounce vehemently; censure severely[C15: from Late Latin excoriāre to strip, flay, from Latin corium skin, hide] exˌcoriˈation n

ex•co•ri•ate

(ɪkˈskɔr iˌeɪt, -ˈskoʊr-)

v.t. -at•ed, -at•ing. 1. to denounce or berate severely: He was excoriated for his mistakes. 2. to strip off or remove the skin from. [1375–1425; late Middle English < Late Latin excoriātus, past participle of excoriāre to strip, skin] ex•co`ri•a′tion, n.

excoriate

Past participle: excoriated
Gerund: excoriating

Imperative
excoriate
excoriate

Present
I excoriate
you excoriate
he/she/it excoriates
we excoriate
you excoriate
they excoriate

Preterite
I excoriated
you excoriated
he/she/it excoriated
we excoriated
you excoriated
they excoriated

Present Continuous
I am excoriating
you are excoriating
he/she/it is excoriating
we are excoriating
you are excoriating
they are excoriating

Present Perfect
I have excoriated
you have excoriated
he/she/it has excoriated
we have excoriated
you have excoriated
they have excoriated

Past Continuous
I was excoriating
you were excoriating
he/she/it was excoriating
we were excoriating
you were excoriating
they were excoriating

Past Perfect
I had excoriated
you had excoriated
he/she/it had excoriated
we had excoriated
you had excoriated
they had excoriated

Future
I will excoriate
you will excoriate
he/she/it will excoriate
we will excoriate
you will excoriate
they will excoriate

Future Perfect
I will have excoriated
you will have excoriated
he/she/it will have excoriated
we will have excoriated
you will have excoriated
they will have excoriated

Future Continuous
I will be excoriating
you will be excoriating
he/she/it will be excoriating
we will be excoriating
you will be excoriating
they will be excoriating

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been excoriating
you have been excoriating
he/she/it has been excoriating
we have been excoriating
you have been excoriating
they have been excoriating

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been excoriating
you will have been excoriating
he/she/it will have been excoriating
we will have been excoriating
you will have been excoriating
they will have been excoriating

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been excoriating
you had been excoriating
he/she/it had been excoriating
we had been excoriating
you had been excoriating
they had been excoriating

Conditional
I would excoriate
you would excoriate
he/she/it would excoriate
we would excoriate
you would excoriate
they would excoriate

Past Conditional
I would have excoriated
you would have excoriated
he/she/it would have excoriated
we would have excoriated
you would have excoriated
they would have excoriated

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	excoriate - express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated"condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobatedenounce - speak out against; "He denounced the Nazis"
	2.	excoriate - tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading; "This leash chafes the dog's neck"chafeabrade, abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off - wear away

excoriate

verb1. To make (the skin) raw by or as if by friction:abrade, chafe, fret, gall, irritate.2. To criticize harshly and devastatingly:blister, drub, flay, lash, rip into, scarify, scathe, scorch, score, scourge, slap, slash.Informal: roast.Slang: slam.Idioms: burn someone's ears, crawl all over, pin someone's ears back, put someone on the griddle, put someone on the hot seat, rake over the coals, read the riot act to.

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verb to make (the skin) raw by or as if by friction

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verb to criticize harshly and devastatingly

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verb express strong disapproval of

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verb tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading

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