Usually means: Harshly criticize or denounce severely.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. excoriate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. excoriate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. excoriate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. excoriate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. excoriate: Vocabulary.com
  6. excoriate: Wordnik
  7. excoriate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. excoriate: Wiktionary
  9. excoriate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. excoriate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. excoriate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Excoriate, excoriate: Dictionary.com
  13. excoriate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Excoriate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. excoriate: Rhymezone
  16. excoriate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. excoriate: Free Dictionary
  18. excoriate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. excoriate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. excoriate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. excoriate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. excoriate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See excoriated 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 denounce or censure.

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