| 单词 | excoriation |
| 释义 | excoriation (once / 45990 pages) n An excoriation is a harsh criticism. If your senior prank involves releasing a flock of chickens into the halls of your high school, you're practically asking for an excoriation from the principal. Excoriation comes from the Latin roots ex, meaning off, and corium, meaning skin. The medical meaning of excoriation refers to a place where your skin is scraped or abraded. If you fall off your bicycle, you may get excoriations on your hands and knees. The idea of excoriation as severe censure comes from this medical definition. If you give someone a harsh lecture, you have verbally whipped and abraded that person, perhaps leaving mental scrapes and scratches. WORD FAMILYexcoriation: excoriations+/excoriate: excoriated, excoriates, excoriating, excoriation USAGE EXAMPLESBut the excoriation is all-inclusive: By the end, he floats a claim about our rate of evolution as a species. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) It’s an angry and relentless piece of music, a call to rebellion and an excoriation of conformity. Slate(Oct 06, 2016) This time, the bipartisan excoriation stems from his ongoing beef with the grieving family of a fallen Muslim-American soldier. US News(Aug 02, 2016) 1n severe censure Hyper denouncement, denunciation a public act of denouncing 2n an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off Syn|Hypo|Hyper abrasion, scrape, scratch graze a superficial abrasion rope burnabrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope lesion, wound an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) |
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