excoriate

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Isegawa does not excoriate along the lines of L. - F. Céline, or Balzac in Père Goriot.

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  1. transitive verb To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade. See Synonyms at chafe.
  2. transitive verb To censure strongly; denounce: an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction.

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  • Isegawa does not excoriate along the lines of L. - F. Céline, or Balzac in Père Goriot. —  The Last Word on Evil
  • Even the two loyal Catholic lay persons chosen to address the bishops would excoriate them all as participants in a corrupt system. —  The Bishops at Bay
  • Employing a technique better suited to the New York Post than to The New York Review of Books, Professor Woodward uses an unnamed source to excoriate my sources and research. —  'Wallace Redeemed?': An Exchange
  • "They won't come here," she said. —  The Legacy of Heorot
  • "I have a class in an hour, " she told him. —  The Ultimate Millionaire
 

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  1. Middle English excoriaten, from Latin excoriāre, excoriāt- : ex-, ex- + corium, skin; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Late Latin excoriatus, past participle of excoriare (later Italian escoriare = Spanish Portuguese excoriar = French excorier), strip off the skin. from Latin ex, out, off, + corium, the skin: see coriaceous.
 

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/ɛksˈkoʊrɪeɪt/
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