Usually means: Harshly criticizes or scolds severely.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. excoriates: Merriam-Webster
  2. excoriates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. excoriates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Excoriates, excoriates: Wordnik
  5. excoriates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. excoriates: Wiktionary
  7. excoriates: Dictionary.com
  8. excoriates: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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

(Note: See excoriate as well.)

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.
▸ Also see excoriate

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