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    [Verb]  | "ex*co*ri*ate" | \ ek-ˈskȯr-ē-ˌāt \


    1: to wear off the skin of : abrade

    2: to censure scathingly

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English, from Late Latin excoriatus, past participle of excoriare, from Latin ex- + corium skin, hide {mat|cuirass|};

    [Verb]  | "excoriates" 


    1: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... the mayor had hardly been in office for a month before she was being excoriated for problems of very long standing "



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    2: to make sore by continued rubbing;


      * e.g., " ... the manacles had badly excoriated the prisoner's wrists "



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    [Verb]  | "excoriate" 


    1: to criticize harshly and usually publicly;


      * e.g., " ... the mayor had hardly been in office for a month before she was being excoriated for problems of very long standing "



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    2: to make sore by continued rubbing;


      * e.g., " ... the manacles had badly excoriated the prisoner's wrists "



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     [ "excoriation" ]

    1: The act of skinning someone alive. It gets painful.

      * e.g.,  ... Ooo remember that one movie? Where that guy was impaled and and he and he was all hooks pulling his FLESH from his muscles? That one with the excoriation? Sexy. 

     [ "excoriation" ]

    1: The wearing away of skin through friction, usually in your asscrack when your wife and kids constantly swipe your credit card through it

      * e.g.,  ... Stop buying all of those bath salts and video games, i have rectal bleeding from the excoriation and its running down my leg! 

     [ "excoriate" ]

    1: censure or criticize severely

      * e.g.,  ... In-spite of an impressive work, the current government is always excoriated. 

     [ "excoriously" ]

    1: Words used by defender's of Sarah Palin's use of the word 'refudiate' in a vain attempt to bolster their cachet with a Palin detractors (intelligent people).

      * e.g.,  ... I am excoriously turned on by Michael. 

     [ "excoriate" ]

    1: tear you a new one

      * e.g.,  ... Donald Trump said, " The press gives them a pass. If I ever did that, I would be excoriated!" 

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