🔤 Excoriate (Verb)
IPA: //ɛkˈskɔːrieɪt//
✨ Whether you're talking about verbal attacks or literal skin damage, excoriate hits hard—use it when the impact matters.
🧠 Meaning
To criticize someone harshly and publicly.
✍️ Example Sentences
🔹 The journalist excoriated the government’s response as slow and incompetent.
🔹 The harsh wind excoriated his face as he trudged through the blizzard.
📜 Word Origin
From Latin excoriare, meaning "to strip off the skin," from ex- ("out") + corium ("skin").
💡 Did You Know?
Excoriate may sound like a medical term (and it is!), but it's just as powerful in the world of biting critique.
🏷️ Related Words
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