🗯️ Very harsh criticism 🤕 Causing sore skin 🩹 To scrape skin

to excoriating

9.0

To wear away the skin by rubbing

verb
/ɪkˈkɔːriˌeɪt/

: excorar

The doctor had to excoriate the wound to prevent infection.

Examples

The tight shoes were excoriating the skin on his heels after a long walk.
The rough rope kept excoriating his hands during the long climb.
Repeatedly falling on the gravel track was excoriating her knees.
He was excoriated by the rough fabric of his new shirt.
The rough rope kept excoriating his hands during the long climb.
Repeatedly falling on the gravel track was excoriating her knees.
The tight shoes were excoriating the skin on his heels after a long walk.

Synonyms

to flay

vsto excoriating

NSFW

15 9.3

To cut the skin off a person or animal, often for punishment and before cooking

involves abrasion or chafing rather than cutting or punishment

to excoriate

vsto excoriating

Specialized

9.6

To rub or scratch skin so the top layer comes off

removes skin completely by abrasion or chafing

to excoriates

vsto excoriating

8.9

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

targets only skin removal from a person or area

Antonyms

to cover

∞ 1.0

To put something over another thing to protect or hide it

to apply

263 1.3

Put a substance onto a surface to cover it

How Severe

to flay

NSFW

15 9.3

to excoriating

9.0

to scrape

62 1.2

to graze

31 3.7

Surface Forms

excoriate infinitive

excoriated past

excoriated past participle

excoriating present participle

excoriates third person singular

Morphology

excoriating = excoriate (transparent) = excoriate + ing

The verb sense is the present-participle/gerund form of 'excoriate' and directly reflects the verb's literal meaning of removing skin by abrasion.

Etymology

Excoriating comes from the parts ex- 'out' and corium 'skin', so it originally meant taking the skin off, which fits when something rubs or wears the skin away.