Synonyms of the word

excoriate

• v. (transitive) To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
• v. (transitive) To strongly denounce or censure.

abrade

• v. (transitive) To rub or wear off; erode.
• v. (transitive) To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate.
• v. (transitive) To irritate by rubbing; chafe.
• v. (transitive) To cause the surface to become more rough.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo abrasion.
• v. (transitive) Obsolete spelling of abraid.

abrase

• adj. (obsolete) Rubbed smooth or blank.
• v. (transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.

chafe

• n. Heat excited by friction.
• n. Injury or wear caused by friction.
• n. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage.
• n. (archaic) An expression of opinionated conflict.
• v. (transitive) To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
• v. (transitive) To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate.
• v. (transitive) To fret and wear by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To rub; to come together so as to wear by rubbing; to wear by friction.
• v. (intransitive) To be worn by rubbing.
• v. (intransitive) To have a feeling of vexation; to be vexed; to fret; to be irritated.

condemn

• v. (transitive) To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate the perpetrators of.
• v. (transitive) To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
• v. (transitive) To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (a building) as being unfit for habitation.
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (building or construction work) as of unsatisfactory quality, requiring the work…
• v. (transitive) To adjudge (food or drink) as being unfit for human consumption.
• v. (transitive) To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
• v. (transitive, law) To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government, to be a prize, or to be unfit…

corrade

• v. (obsolete) To gnaw into; to wear away; to fret; to consume.
• v. (geology) To erode, as the bed of a stream.
• v. (obsolete) To scrape or rake together; to accumulate laboriously.

decry

• v. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.
• v. (transitive) To blame for ills.

denounce

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.
• v. (transitive) To criticize or speak out against (someone or something); to point out as deserving of reprehension,…
• v. (transitive) To make a formal or public accusation against; to inform against; to accuse.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To proclaim in a threatening manner; to threaten by some outward sign or expression;…
• v. (transitive) To announce the termination of; especially a treaty or armistice.

objurgate

• v. (transitive) To rebuke or scold strongly.

reprobate

• adj. (rare) Rejected; cast off as worthless.
• adj. Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
• adj. Immoral, having no religious or principled character.
• n. One rejected by God; a sinful person.
• n. An individual with low morals or principles.
• v. To have strong disapproval of something; to condemn.
• v. Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
• v. To refuse, set aside.