EXCORIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excoriation mean? 

• EXCORIATION (noun)
  The noun EXCORIATION has 2 senses:

1. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

2. severe censure

  Familiarity information: EXCORIATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCORIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

abrasion; excoriation; scrape; scratch

Hypernyms ("excoriation" is a kind of...):

lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "excoriation"):

graze (a superficial abrasion)

rope burn (abrasion (usually on the hands) caused by friction from a rope)

Derivation:

excoriate (tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Severe censure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("excoriation" is a kind of...):

denouncement; denunciation (a public act of denouncing)

Derivation:

excoriate (express strong disapproval of)

 Context examples 

Abraded wound; excoriation or circumscribed removal of the superficial layers of the skin or mucous membrane.

(Abrasion, Food and Drug Administration)