excoriates in English

verb
1
censure or criticize severely.
the papers that had been excoriating him were now lauding him
2
damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin).
People with this condition have a rash, pruritis, and excoriated crythematous skin in body folds, axillae, and groin.
synonyms:abraderub awayrub rawscrapescratchchafestrip awayskin
verb

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1. Glenn Greenwald excoriates Dems for Assailing free speech

2. In a passage removed by Paine, Twain excoriates "the iniquitous Cuban-Spanish War" and Gen. Leonard Wood's "mephitic record" as governor general in Havana.

3. For the heteronormative Cisgender person investigating trans sexuality, for example, this is often simply a matter of disavowing direct association with the matter under consideration--giving a shrugged mea culpa if you will (cf Smith, 2013)--which at once excoriates and exonerates in that it suggests that there will inevitably be faults due to that personal distance from the subject, but that