excoriate
verb (used with object)
to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally.
has excoriated
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present perfectof excoriate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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On social media and elsewhere, he has excoriated Bass over her handling of the disaster and the subsequent recovery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
“I want to match them, I want to be like them, have power like them,” the boy later tells his siblings, after their father has excoriated the British for their occupation of Egypt.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
Only then, when he has excoriated all of the "flim-flam" and removed the "fat off of the bones," does he believe that the song is once and truly written.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2021
And he has excoriated reporters who posed questions he did not like.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2020
This excoriated, scabby area contains crowds of staphylococci which find a nidus here, where the copious tear-flow down the nostrils has excoriated and irritated the skin.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
