Associations to the word «Excoriation»

Wiktionary

EXCORIATION, noun. The act of excoriating or flaying
EXCORIATION, noun. The excoriated place or the state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
EXCORIATION, noun. Severe verbal denouncing

Dictionary definition

EXCORIATION, noun. An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
EXCORIATION, noun. Severe censure.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin