Definition of "excoriation"

excoriation

/ˈɛks.kɔ.ɹi.eɪʃən/

noun
plural excoriations
1. The act of excoriating or flaying.
2. The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
  Quotations
  A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.
  1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, page 80
3. A severe verbal denouncing.

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