Excoriation

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  • n. The act of excoriating or flaying
  • n. The excoriated place or the state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
  • n. Severe verbal denouncing
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
  • n. Stripping of possession; spoliation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of flaying; the operation of stripping off the skin.
  • n. Hence The act or process of abrading or galling; especially, a breaking or removal of the outer layers of the skin.
  • n. An abraded, galled, or broken surface of the skin.
  • n. . The act of stripping of possessions; spoliation; robbery.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. severe censure
  • n. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off
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    abrasion    spoliation   
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