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Definition of Excoriates
1. excoriate [v] - See also: excoriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excoriates
Literary usage of Excoriates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of homoeopathic materia medica by Joseph C. Fahnestock (1901)
"Violent vomiting of ingesta; of bile; of an extremely sour fluid which excoriates
the throat. Much exhaustion and debility from the first. ..."
2. Catarrhal Diseases of the Nasal and Respiratory Organs by Gershom Nelson Brigham (1884)
"Discharge is acrid and excoriates particularly the upper lip, ... In differentiating
we find Cepa excoriates the upper lip, Mercurius the al(B and columns ..."
3. The Surgical diseases of the genito-urinary organs including syphilis by Edward Lawrence Keyes (1889)
"... usually not till the end of three weeks, as a reddened spot, which quickly
excoriates ; or as an elevated solid papule, which excoriates or ulcerates. ..."
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