excoriate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To strongly condemn or criticize.

   The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.

2. 2
   adj

   Excoriated.

   If the bowelles be excoriate, ye shall gyue thys peculier remedy.

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.

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