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excoriations

excoriations is the plural of excoriation.

Meaning of excoriation

Noun

excoriation (countable and uncountable, plural excoriations)

  1. The act of excoriating or flaying.
  2. The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
    • A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred...
  3. A severe verbal denouncing.

Questions about excoriations

What is excoriations the plural of?
Excoriations is the plural of excoriation.

Words near excoriations in the dictionary

  1. excoriateth
  2. excoriating
  3. excoriatingly
  4. excoriation
  5. excoriation disorder
  6. excoriations
  7. excoriator
  8. excoriators
  9. excoriosis
  10. excorporate
  11. excorporation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excoriations (page history and authors); excoriation (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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