To strip off or remove portions of the skin (or analogous membrane) from; to excoriate. Often hyperbolically (cf. scarify, v.1).

to peel entirely, to make bare of skin.

transitive. To make sore by chafing or rubbing.

To remove portions of the skin (or analogous membrane) from. Now chiefly Pathology of the action of corrosives, of abrasion, etc.

To rub so as to abrade or injure the surface; to fret, gall.

transitive. to pare to (also beyond,etc.) the quick: to cut away the skin, or other superficial layer, so deeply as to reach the live or sensitive…

figurative. To gall severely, in various senses.

= gall, v.1

transitive. To make (the skin, a person, etc.) raw; to excoriate, abrade; to chafe. Now rare.

to gall, fret, or rub sore.

To affect painfully or disagreeably. intransitive. To chafe; to make rough by abrasion; esp. (of a shoe or other hard item in contact with the…

transitive. To scrape off the skin of (a person, a part of the body, etc.). rare (chiefly Canadian regional (Newfoundland) in later use).