Word Meanings - EXCORIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

Related words: (words related to EXCORIATE)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• ACRIDLY
  In an acid manner.
• RUBBIDGE
  Rubbish. Bp. Hall.
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• ACRIDITY; ACRIDNESS
  The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• BEATIFICATE
  To beatify. Fuller.
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• BEATER
  1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
• RUBBLY
  Relating to, or containing, rubble.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• RUBBLE
  A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock. Lyell. 4. pl. (more info) 1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• DRUMBEAT
  The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• REACTIONIST
  A reactionary. C. Kingsley.
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• TRABEATED
  Furnished with an entablature.
• MADEFACTION; MADEFICATION
  The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. Bacon.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• REDACTION
  The act of redacting; work produced by redacting; a digest.
• CHYLIFACTION
  The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animal bodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• DEADBEAT
  Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.