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excoriate Verb [-ating, -ated] 1. Literary to censure severely 2. to strip skin from a person or animal [Late Latin excoriare to strip, flay] excoriation n
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| Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman. |
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