excoriate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excoriate | |
| he / she / it excoriates | |
| past simple excoriated | |
| past participle excoriated | |
| -ing form excoriating |
- excoriate something (
medical 医学 to make a person’s skin painful, and often red, so that it starts to come off 擦破，擦伤，剥落（皮肤） - excoriate somebody/something (formal)
to criticize somebody/something severely 严厉指责；痛斥
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin excoriat- ‘skinned’, from the verb excoriare, from ex- ‘out, from’ + corium ‘skin, hide’.