to excoriate

Examples

• All

• Shortly before dawn this morning... security staff at London Zoo discovered the excoriated carcass... of its prized three-year-old female Siberian tiger, Sue Ling.

  101 Dalmatians (1996)

• She makes a delicious meal from it, but when she discovers the source of the rosemary, she almost vomits, excoriating her son and throwing the food away.

  Academic text (2007)

• It is a cancer that must be excoriated.

  Blog text (20)

• If the skin of the patient's neck is excoriated, culture will almost always identify Candida spp.

  Academic text (2003)

• She wounds and excoriates the lips that approach her, continues Lamb, regarding the pineapple.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Numerous ulcerated and excoriated nodules are seen adjacent to the nares.

  Academic text (1998)

• The helical cartilage and pinna of the right ear are inflamed and thickened, and the overlying skin is erythematous and excoriated.

  Academic text (2003)

• The patient complained that his skin became excoriated after wearing the tight bandage for too long.

• The child accidentally excoriated his knee when he fell off his bike.

• Constant scratching can lead to excoriated skin, which may become infected.

Synonyms

C

to chafe

vsto excoriate

5 5.6

To make skin sore by rubbing

causes soreness rather than serious surface removal

E

to excoriating

vsto excoriate

9.0

To wear away the skin by rubbing

is the same action but stated in the base verb form

E

to excoriates

vsto excoriate

8.9

Removes the top layer of skin or material by rubbing with something rough

focuses specifically on skin damage rather than material surfaces

Antonyms

P

to protect

∞ 1.0

To keep someone or something safe from harm

H

to heal

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

How Severe

to flay

• NSFW

15 9.3

to excoriate

• Specialized

9.6

to scrape

62 1.2

to graze

31 3.7

scratch

203 1.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology