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excorticating

excorticating is the present participle and gerund of excorticate.

Meaning of excorticate

Verb

excorticate (third-person singular simple present excorticates, present participle excorticating, simple past and past participle excorticated)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin.
    • Moſs is to be rubb'd and ſcrap'd off with ſome fit inſtrument of Wood, which may not excorticate the Tree, or with a piece of Hair-cloth after a ſobbing Rain: [...]1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Questions about excorticating

What is excorticating the present participle and gerund of?
Excorticating is the present participle and gerund of excorticate.

Words near excorticating in the dictionary

  1. excorporation
  2. excorporations
  3. excorticate
  4. excorticated
  5. excorticates
  6. excorticating
  7. excortication
  8. excortications
  9. excos
  10. excosec
  11. excosecant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excorticating (page history and authors); excorticate (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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