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Excoriate   /ɛkskˈɔriˌeɪt/   Listen
Excoriate

verb
(past & past part. excoriated; pres. part. excoriating)
1.
Express strong disapproval of.  Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate.  "These ideas were reprobated"
2.
Tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading.  Synonym: chafe.






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"Excoriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... the war and expatiated upon her efficiency and the beneficence of her culture in the same breath that he attacked the commercial greed of Great Britain, the cruel autocracy of Russia, and the imperialistic designs of Japan in the Pacific. Its pamphlets went so far as to excoriate allied methods of warfare and to level accusations of inhumanity against the Belgians. It distributed broadcast throughout the country an appeal signed by ninety-three German professors and intellectuals, and countersigned by a few notable Americans, which besought the American people not to be ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour



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