excoriation
noun/ˈɛks.kɔ.ɹi.eɪʃən/
Etymology From excoriate + -ion.
1
The act of excoriating or flaying.
2
The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
- A Perſon of Honour, of a full Body abounding with ſharp Humours, was ſeized with an Herpes on his right Leg. […] [I]t inflamed and ſwelled very much, many Wheals aroſe, and fretted one into another, with great Excoriation.1676, Richard Wiseman, “[A Treatise of Tumors.] Of an Herpes”, in Severall Chirurgical Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston bookseller to His Most Sacred Majesty, and B[enjamin] Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard, →OCLC, page 80:
3
A severe verbal denouncing.
- Derived terms
- excoriation disorder