Associations to the word «Excoriation»

Wiktionary

EXCORIATION, noun. The act of excoriating or flaying
EXCORIATION, noun. The excoriated place or the state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
EXCORIATION, noun. Severe verbal denouncing

Dictionary definition

EXCORIATION, noun. An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
EXCORIATION, noun. Severe censure.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope