excoriation

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
20
Words With Friends
22
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈɛks.kɔ.ɹi.eɪʃən/

Definition of excoriation

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of excoriating or flaying.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of excoriating or flaying.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
    “A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.”
  3. (countable, uncountable)A severe verbal denouncing.

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Etymology

From excoriate + -ion.

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