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Definition of Excoriated
1. excoriate [v] - See also: excoriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excoriated
Literary usage of Excoriated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Illustrated Horse Doctor: Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the by Edward Mayhew (1880)
"excoriated ANGLES OF THE MOUTH. LET no man punish a horse for want of obedience;
the sole use of the creature and its only delight is to obey. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"In two or three days, the pustules break and discharge their contents, leaving
a red, shining, somewhat excoriated surface, which exudes large quantities of ..."
3. The Surgical Works of John Abernethy by John Abernethy (1825)
"The surface of the skin, to a considerable extent from the wound, red and excoriated.
Tuesday, She had a return of headach, ..."
4. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1880)
"Trachea sore to outward pressure; feels excoriated through its whole extent, as
do also the whole fauces; cough excited by pressure on the throat-pit; ..."
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