Excoriates [verb]

Definition of Excoriates:

scrape layers off

Synonyms of Excoriates:

Chafe

Peel

Rub

Scratch

Strip

Flay

Scarify

Abrade

Skin

Gall

Fret


Opposite/Antonyms of Excoriates:


Sentence/Example of Excoriates:

Some have excoriated those across the aisle for holding the hearing at all.

The president also excoriated Redfield’s Senate testimony that universal mask-wearing may be more useful than a coronavirus vaccine.

Neither have you a right to excoriate those who are conscientiously operating through the channels spoken of.

The drops of rain bruise us; the false sounds excoriate us; the darkness blinds us.

Those attacked by the insect scratch, and in this act they excoriate the skin, crush the lice and contaminate their fingers.

Five days after this period, I again observed a disposition to excoriate.

Its pamphlets went so far as to excoriate allied methods of warfare and to level accusations of inhumanity against the Belgians.

You must be careful not to have too much of the Liquid on the rag, for fear it should excoriate the gums or inside of the mouth.

After eating the marrow, which was so acrid as to excoriate the lips, we rendered the bones friable by burning, and ate them also.

Ghastly faces were staring at her, their lips moving in death to excoriate her.