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excoriateex‧co‧ri‧ate /ɪkˈskɔːrieɪt/ verb [transitive] excoriateOrigin: 1400-1500 Late Latin past participle of excoriare, from Latin corium ‘skin’ VERB TABLEexcoriate |
Present | I, you, we, they | excoriate | | he, she, it | excoriates | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | excoriated | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have excoriated | | he, she, it | has excoriated | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had excoriated | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will excoriate | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have excoriated |
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Present | I | am excoriating | | he, she, it | is excoriating | | you, we, they | are excoriating | Past | I, he, she, it | was excoriating | | you, we, they | were excoriating | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been excoriating | | he, she, it | has been excoriating | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been excoriating | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be excoriating | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been excoriating |
- The Boston Globe excoriated the first American exhibition, calling it a hotbed of Bolshevism.
formal to express a very bad opinion of a book, play etc: an excoriating review in ‘The Times’ |