excoriate
/ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.64 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues."
- "Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence."
- "Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics."
- "The tabloids branded him forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy."
- "Police are under pressure to accelerate the criminal investigation into the Grenfell Tower fire after an excoriating report found that companies operated with “systematic dishonesty” and that all 72 deaths were avoidable."
- "If the bowelles be excoriate, ye shall gyue thys peculier remedy."
Etymology
First attested in the first part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English *excoriaten (only attested in its past participle), borrowed from Late Latin excoriātus perfect passive participle of excoriō (“to take the skin or hide off, flay, skin”), from ex- (“out off, from”) + corium (“hide, skin”) + -ō. Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English, later archaic.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: excoriaten, excoriātus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
excoriates (present, singular)
excoriating (participle, present)
excoriated (participle, past)
excoriated (past)
more excoriate (comparative)
most excoriate (superlative)