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What does excoriate mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
  2. (transitive) To strongly denounce or censure.
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Another set of papers in the latest Lancet excoriate those who do not particularly those who persecute prostitutes.
I am so mellow now in my dotage that no-one bothers to write in to excoriate me any more.
Ghastly faces were staring at her, their lips moving in death to excoriate her.
It teases and goads the wealthy to be fair rather than excoriate them for being rich.
As a card-carrying right-wing seditionist, I defend God's World's right to excoriate any candidate, fairly or not.
Its pamphlets went so far as to excoriate allied methods of warfare and to level accusations of inhumanity against the Belgians.

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