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1. Of or like leather, especially in texture.
2. Resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable.
3. Leathery, tough; sometimes a reference to bacterial cultures.
4. Having a leathery appearance and texture; used especially of a fungal fruiting body.

1. The vascular layer of the skin, the derma.
2. The leathery middle part of the forewing of some insects.

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

Capable of being excoriated.

1. To tear or wear off the skin of; to abrade (rub or wear away especially by friction).
2. To censure strongly; to denounce: "He wrote an editorial which excoriated the administration for its inaction."

1. A stated opinion that a play, a book, a political action, etc. was very bad.
2. Flayed; galled; stripped of skin or the cuticle; abraded.
3. A strong disapproval about someone or something which has been expressed verbally or in writing.

Flaying; galling; stripping of the cuticle or skin.

1. A scratch or abrasion (process of wearing away by friction) of the skin.
2. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
3. A superficial loss of dermal substance, as may be produced on the skin by scratching.
4. Abrasion of the epidermis or of the coating of any organ by trauma, chemicals, burns, or other causes.

1. A self-induced skin lesion, inflicted by the fingernails or by other physical actions.
2. A self-inflicted excoriation, usually on the face, back, or shoulders of a subject when under stress.