excoriation

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of excoriating or flaying.
2. noun The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
3. noun A severe verbal denouncing.

Similar words

abrasion scrape scratch flaying excruciation flagellation scorching scourging flogging evisceration

Often followed by

of and or in is from by may on

Word family

excoriate excoriated excoriates excoriating excoriations