Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Excoriate

Excoriate , transitive verb

[Latin excoriare; ex out + corium hide. compare Scourge; see Cuirass.]

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.