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Excoriation

//ˈɛks.kɔ.ɹi.eɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of excoriating or flaying. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    severe censure wordnet
  3. 3
    The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off wordnet
  5. 5
    A severe verbal denouncing. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From excoriate + -ion.

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