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excoriation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun excoriation has 2 senses
- excoriation(n = noun.state) abrasion, scrape, scratch - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off; Array has particulars: graze, rope burn
- excoriation(n = noun.communication) Array - severe censure; Array is a kind of denouncement, denunciation
is a kind of lesion, wound
Derived form verb excoriate2
Derived form verb excoriate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
excoriation, n. [Cf. F. excoriation.].
- The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion. [1913 Webster]
- Stripping of possession; spoliation. [1913 Webster]"A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
excoriation
Divestment
N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.
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