excoriated

Meaning of excoriated

verb, past tense
  1. damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin).
    the discharge is acrid and excoriates the skin of the nose
  2. criticize (someone) severely.
    he excoriated the government for censorship

late Middle English: from Latin excoriat- ‘skinned’, from the verb excoriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + corium ‘skin, hide’.

Information about excoriated

  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of excoriated

ex-co-ri-ated

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
  • excoriated is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

excoriated synonyms

Meaning scrape or wear away by friction or erosion:

abrade

Meaning rub or cause to rub by accident against a rough or hard surface, causing damage or injury:

scrape

Meaning make a long, narrow superficial wound in the skin of:

scratch

Meaning (with reference to a part of the body) make or become sore by rubbing against something:

chafe

Meaning inflict physical harm on (something) so as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function:

damage

Meaning graze (a part of one's body):

skin

Meaning remove the bark, rind, or husk from:

decorticate

Meaning indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way:

criticize

Meaning express severe disapproval of (someone or something), especially in a formal statement:

censure

Meaning publicly declare to be wrong or evil:

denounce

Meaning express complete disapproval of; censure:

condemn

Meaning find fault with; censure:

arraign

Meaning criticize or oppose fiercely and publicly:

attack

Meaning criticize (someone or something) harshly:

lambast

Meaning attack or ridicule publicly:

pillory

Meaning regard or represent as being of little worth:

disparage

Meaning criticize unfairly; disparage:

denigrate

Meaning express disapproval of:

deprecate

Meaning speak about (someone) in a spitefully critical manner:

malign

Meaning speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner:

vilify

Meaning damage (someone's reputation):

besmirch

Meaning speak (words) indistinctly so that the sounds run into one another:

slur

Meaning strike a surface noisily to attract attention, especially when waiting to be let in through a door:

knock

Meaning criticize severely:

pan, slam, slate

Meaning attack or criticize forcefully and relentlessly:

hammer

Meaning blow up or break apart (something solid) with explosives:

blast

Meaning subject to fierce criticism:

maul

Meaning subject to a vicious verbal attack; criticize brutally:

savage

Meaning cook (food, especially meat) by prolonged exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire:

roast

Meaning fasten together or pierce with a pin or skewer:

skewer

Meaning criticize (someone) severely and unrelentingly:

crucify

Meaning criticize or reprimand severely:

monster

Meaning criticize severely and reject as worthless:

rubbish

Meaning strike repeatedly with the fists:

pummel

Meaning damage or destroy:

trash

Meaning put (something) in a bag:

bag

Meaning travel or slide downhill over snow on a sledge:

sledge

Meaning assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale:

rate

Meaning cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword:

slash

Meaning express or feel disapproval of:

reprobate

Meaning rebuke severely; scold:

objurgate

Meaning attack or criticize the reputation or integrity of:

asperse

Meaning detract from:

derogate

Meaning reprimand:

reprehend

excoriated antonyms

Meaning express warm approval or admiration of:

praise

Words that rhyme with excoriated

ated, solvaated, abated, acerbated, aerobated, approbated, barbated, bated, bilobated, cohobated, combated, conglobated, debated, delibated, elumbated, exacerbated, extubated, globated, incubated, interdebated, intubated, libated, lobated, masturbated, nimbated, outdebated, overdebated, palmilobated, perturbated, precombated, probated, quinquelobated, rebated, reprobated, surbated, titubated, trilobated, unabated, unbated, uncombated, unconglobated, undebated, unexacerbated, unincubated, unprobated, unrebated, unreprobated, abdicated, abjudicated, adjudicated

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