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View definitions for excoriate

excoriate

verb as in scrape layers off

verb as in denounce, criticize

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Newspaper editorials continue to excoriate Netanyahu, even calling for his resignation—editorials written by his supporters.

It teases and goads the wealthy to be fair rather than excoriate them for being rich.

Those who excoriate the approach as idealistic or unrealistic missed the point.

That opened a new opportunity for bloggers to excoriate both Duncan and his staff.

Critics on the right properly excoriate him for those historic mistakes.

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.

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On this page you'll find 66 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to excoriate, such as: abrade, chafe, flay, fret, gall, and peel.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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