Usually means: Harshly criticized or severely scolded.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. excoriated: Merriam-Webster
  2. excoriated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. excoriated: Vocabulary.com
  4. excoriated: Wordnik
  5. excoriated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. excoriated: Wiktionary
  7. Excoriated, excoriated: Dictionary.com
  8. Excoriated: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Excoriated: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. excoriated: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. excoriated: FreeDictionary.org
  12. excoriated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excoriated: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. excoriated: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. excoriated: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (excoriate)

verb:  (transitive) to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin
verb:  (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To strongly condemn or criticize.
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