excoriation

excoriate +‎ -ion.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛks.kɔ.ɹi.eɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: ex‧co‧ri‧at‧ion

excoriation (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.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, “ 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, →OCLC, page 80:

     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.

3. A severe verbal denouncing.

• “excoriation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “excoriation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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excoriation f (plural excoriations)

1. excoriation (flaying of skin)

• “excoriation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.