excoriate
US/ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt/
excoriate verb: to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
Verb
excoriate (third-person singular simple present excoriates, present participle excoriating, simple past and past participle excoriated)
- To remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
- Synonyms:
- excarnate
- To wear off the skin of; to chafe.
- To strongly condemn or criticize.
- The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.
- Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Trade paperback edition, published 2005, →ISBN, page 464
Adjective
excoriate (comparative more excoriate, superlative most excoriate)
- Excoriated.
- If the bowelles be excoriate, ye shall gyue thys peculier remedy.c. 1543, Thomas Phaer, translation of Jean Goëvrot's Regiment of Lyfe
excoriate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
excoriate in Tamil
- தோல் உரி, உரி, உரிஞ்சு, கடுமையாகத் திட்டு
excoriate in Urdu
- to excoriate, tweak, unravel
- ادھیڑنا udheṛnā
excoriate in Malayalam
- ഗൗരവമായി കുറ്റപ്പെടുത്തുക
excoriate in Kannada
- ಬಿಚ್ಚನೆ ಹಳಿ
Examples of excoriate in a sentence
- In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another.
- Marston poses as the Timonist malcontent satirist ready to excoriate the world for its follies.
- The tabloids branded him James Hewitt forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.
Synonyms of excoriate
Forms of excoriate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | excoriates |
| present participle | excoriating |
| past participle | excoriated |
| past | excoriated |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more excoriate |
| superlative | most excoriate |
Origin of excoriate
First attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English *excoriaten (only attested in its past participle), borrowed from Late Latin excoriātus perfect passive participle of excoriō (“to take the skin or hide off, flay, skin”), from ex- (“out off, from”) + corium (“hide, skin”) + -ō. Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English, later archaic.
Words formed from excoriate
Questions about excoriate
- What does excoriate mean?
- Excoriate means to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin.
- What is excoriate in Tamil?
- Excoriate in Tamil is தோல் உரி, உரி, உரிஞ்சு. See Excoriate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is excoriate?
- Excoriate can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce excoriate?
- Excoriate is pronounced /ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt/ (US).
- What is the past tense of excoriate?
- The past tense of excoriate is excoriated.
Words near excoriate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: excoriate (page history and authors); excoriate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ادھیڑنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); excoriate (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); excoriate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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