excoriate
5 synonyms for excoriate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To strip the skin or fur from something.
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Etymology
First attested in the early 15th century in Middle English, it was inherited from Middle English *excoriaten (only found in its past participle), which was borrowed from Late Latin excoriātus, the perfect passive participle of excoriō (“to take the skin or hide off, flay, skin”), from ex- (“out off, from”), corium (“hi...
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