Excoriate

Definition: Excoriate

Excoriate

Verb

1. Express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa".

Date "excoriate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Excoriate

Synonyms: condemn (v), decry (v), objurgate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Divestment	Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Excoriate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Excoriate" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	100%	3	202,518

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Language		Translations for "excoriate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zhvoshk (bark, cut off, excorticate, raw, rind, shell, shuck). (various references)

Bulgarian		критикувам безпощадно (clobber), олющвам (husk, skin), обелвам (bark, excorticate, pare, peel, pill, rind), одирам (abrade, flay, flench, flense, raw, skin, soak, tear off). (various references)

Czech		odřít (abrade, chafe, chip, flay, lacerate, scrape, strip). (various references)

Farsi		پوست چیزی راکندن , پوست کندن از (Shell), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Expunge, Face, Grain, Grave, Pare, Rase, Raze, Scrape, Shave, Trim, Whittle). (various references)

Greek		εκδέρω (flay, shave, skin, skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin). (various references)

Hungarian		feldörzsöl (gall, raw, to excoriate). (various references)

Indonesian		mengkritik (criticize). (various references)

Italian		escoriare (abrasive, graze), scorticare (bark, flay, gall, graze, hide, scrape, scratch, skin, skinning, to flay, to skin, to take off the skin). (various references)

Pig Latin		excoriateay

Portuguese		excomunhão (anathema, ban, excommunication), escoriar (gall, raw, scorify). (various references)

Romanian		jupui (abrade, bark, flay, fleece, gall, graze, Harry, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, Rob, scratch, skin, soak, strip, wound), coji (bark, disbark, exfoliate, husk, parings, pill, rind, skin, strip), însemna (badge, be, betoken, brand, chalk out, connote, denote, dint, imply, import, item, jot down, mark off, mean, note, record, scotch, signify, spell, stand, tick). (various references)

Russian		содрать кожу (bark). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osuditi (censure, condemn, convict, damn, decry, denounce, deplore, deprecate, disapprove, inveigh, slate), oguliti (decorticate, excorticate). (various references)

Spanish		excoriar. (various references)

Turkish		suçlamak (accuse, arraign, blame, bring an accusation against smb., censure, charge, charge smb. with smth., chastise, condemn, criminate, impeach, impute, incriminate, inculpate, indict, put in the dock, put the blame on smb., reproach, task, tax), derisini yüzmek (flay, hide, skin, skin out), derisini soymak (scarify), şiddetle eleştirmek (badmouth, rap, reprehend, slate). (various references)

Ukranian		здирати шкіру (bark, raw). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	ex-. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "excoriate": excoriated, excoriates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Excoriate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: axcoriate, escoriate, excarnate, exccoriate, excorciate, excoriare, excorinate, exoriate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "excoriate" (pronounced ekskô"rēā't)
4	-r ē ā' t	expatriate, expropriate, infuriate, misappropriate, recreate, repatriate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, expiate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, renegotiate, renunciate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-o-r-t-x"
	-1 letter: exoteric.
	-2 letters: coexert, coterie, erotica, exacter, exactor, exciter, excitor, excreta, exotica, ocreate, xerotic.
	-3 letters: aortic, cerate, cerite, coatee, coater, coaxer, cortex, create, ecarte, erotic, excite, exotic, ocreae, oxcart, recite, tierce.
	-4 letters: actor, aerie, areic, arete, axite, caret, carex, carte, cater, ceria, citer, coati, coria, coxae, crate, eater, erect, erica, exact, exert, extra, irate, ixora.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-o-r-t-x"
	+1 letter: excoriated, excoriates, execration.
	+2 letters: execrations, executorial, exorbitance, stereotaxic.
	+3 letters: exacerbation, exercitation, exorbitances, exoterically.
	+4 letters: exacerbations, exercitations, expectorating, expectoration.
	+5 letters: exothermically, expectorations, extraembryonic, overextraction, oxidoreductase.
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