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excoriate
1447 (implied in
excoriation
), from L.L.
excoriatus,
pp. of
excoriare
"flay, strip off the hide," from L.
ex-
"off" +
corium
"hide, skin." Figurative sense of "denounce, censure" first recorded in Eng. 1708.
