Synonyms of the word

excoriation

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

abrasion

• n. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
• n. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
• n. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching…
• n. An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
• n. (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have…
• n. (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

denouncement

• n. An act of denouncing; a denunciation.
• n. A solemn or formal declaration.

denunciation

• n. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing.
• n. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly…
• n. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment.

lesion

• n. A wound or injury.
• n. (medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such patch of skin.
• n. (biochemistry) Any compound formed from damage to a nucleic acid.
• v. (transitive) To wound or injure, especially in an experiment or other controlled procedure.

scrape

• v. To draw an object, especially a sharp or angular one, along (something) while exerting pressure.
• v. To injure or damage by rubbing across a surface.
• v. To barely manage to achieve.
• v. To collect or gather, especially without regard to the quality of what is chosen.
• v. (computing) To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such…
• v. To occupy oneself with getting laboriously.
• v. To play awkwardly and inharmoniously on a violin or similar instrument.
• v. To draw back the right foot along the ground or floor when making a bow.
• v. To express disapprobation of (a play, etc.) or to silence (a speaker) by drawing the feet back and forth…
• n. A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).
• n. A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.
• n. An awkward set of circumstances.
• n. (Britain, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.
• n. A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

scratch

• v. To rub a surface with a sharp object, especially by a living creature to remove itching with nails, claws,…
• v. To rub the skin with rough material causing a sensation of irritation.
• v. To mark a surface with a sharp object, thereby leaving a scratch (noun).
• v. To cross out, strike out, strike through some text on a page.
• v. (music) To produce a distinctive sound on a turntable by moving a vinyl record back and forth while manipulating…
• v. (billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
• v. (billiards, dated, US) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• v. To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• v. To dig or excavate with the claws.
• v. To dig or scrape (a person's skin) with claws or fingernails in self-defense or with the intention to…
• n. (countable) A disruption, mark or shallow cut on a surface made by scratching.
• n. An act of scratching the skin to alleviate an itch or irritation.
• n. (sports).
• n. (slang) Money.
• n. A feed, usually a mixture of a few common grains, given to chickens.
• n. (in the plural) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of…
• n. A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• n. (music) A genre of Virgin Islander music, better known as fungi.
• adj. For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work.
• adj. Hastily assembled; put together in a hurry or from disparate elements.
• adj. (computing, from scratchpad) Relating to a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for…
• adj. Constructed from whatever materials are to hand.
• adj. (sports) (of a player) Of a standard high enough to play without a handicap, i.e. to compete without the…
• adj. Made, done, or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances;…

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.