The teacher continued to excoriate the student after his academic issues.
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Excoriate
//ɪkˈskɔɹ.iˌeɪt//
Synonyms for "excoriate" (80 found)
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Related words (40)
Verb(19 words)
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64 translations across 24 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- կաշին քերթել verb (to wear off the skin of)
Bulgarian
2 entries- обелвам verb (to wear off the skin of)
- одирам verb (to wear off the skin of)
Catalan
4 entries- censurar verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- condemnar verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- excoriar verb (to wear off the skin of)
- reprovar verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Czech
3 entries- sedřít verb (to wear off the skin of)
- stáhnout verb (to wear off the skin of)
- ztrhat verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Danish
2 entries- fordømme verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- hudflette verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Dutch
1 entries- schrammen verb (to wear off the skin of)
Finnish
4 entries- haukkua pataluhaksi verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- hiertää verb (to wear off the skin of)
- ripittää verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- sättiä verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
French
2 entries- excorier verb (to wear off the skin of)
- fustiger verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Galician
1 entries- excoriar verb (to wear off the skin of)
German
4 entries- abscheuern verb (to wear off the skin of)
- abschürfen verb (to wear off the skin of)
- kein gutes Haar lassen an verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- mit vernichtender Kritik überziehen verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Hungarian
4 entries- feldörzsöl verb (to wear off the skin of)
- felhorzsol verb (to wear off the skin of)
- felsebez verb (to wear off the skin of)
- horzsol verb (to wear off the skin of)
Italian
1 entries- escoriare verb (to wear off the skin of)
Latin
2 entries- excoriō verb (to wear off the skin of)
- excoriō verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Macedonian
3 entries- дере verb (to wear off the skin of)
- лупи verb (to wear off the skin of)
- осудува verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Māori
2 entries- whakakinokino verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- whakatapitapi verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Norwegian
1 entries- hudflette verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- hudflette verb (to wear off the skin of)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- hudflette verb (to wear off the skin of)
Portuguese
1 entries- escoriar verb (to wear off the skin of)
Quechua
1 entries- iqhay verb (to wear off the skin of)
Russian
4 entries- громи́ть verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- поноси́ть verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- разноси́ть verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- сдира́ть ко́жу verb (to wear off the skin of)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- rùisg verb (to wear off the skin of)
Spanish
2 entries- excoriar verb (to wear off the skin of)
- fustigar verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
Welsh
4 entries- fflangellu verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- llachio verb (to strongly denounce or censure)
- rhwbio verb (to wear off the skin of)
- rhwto verb (to wear off the skin of)
Sample sentences
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Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
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Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.
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The tabloids branded him forevermore as the “love rat,” and Pasternak was excoriated for peddling mawkish fantasy.
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