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excoriate
verb
Reveal meaning and examples
To scrape or wear away skin; also to criticize severely.
The critic will excoriate the production for its careless treatment of the script.
In a fictional museum, the director decided to castigate a guide who had knowingly invented histories for several objects and presented them as established facts. A visiting critic threatened to excoriate the exhibition for leaving those claims on its labels after the problem had been reported.