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third-person singular simple present excoriates, present participle excoriating, simple past and past participle excoriated
(transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay. examples
(transitive, figuratively) To strongly denounce or censure. quotations examples
Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
2004, China Miéville, Iron Council, Trade paperback edition, published 2005, page 464
Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.
13 September 2006, Patrick Healy, “Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary”, in New York Times
The tabloids branded him forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.adapted from the book The Palace Papers, published 2022 by Penguin Books
April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair