Excoriate vs Crucify - What's the difference?
excoriate | crucify |
To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
To strongly denounce or censure.
* 2004 , , Iron Council , 2005 Trade paperback ed., ISBN 0-345-45842-7. p. 464:
* 2006 , Patrick Healy "
To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
To punish or otherwise express extreme anger at, especially as a scapegoat or target of outrage.
* 1992 , Tori Amos, Crucify (song)
(informal) To thoroughly beat at a sport or game.
As verbs the difference between excoriate and crucify
is that excoriate is to wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay while crucify is to execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.excoriate
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Verb
(excoriat)- Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
Spitzer and Clinton Win in N.Y. Primary," New York Times , 13 Sep. (retrieved 7 Oct. 2008):
- Mr. Green, a former city public advocate and candidate for mayor in 2001, ran ads excoriating Mr. Cuomo’s ethics.
Synonyms
* (to wear off the skin of) abrade, chafe, flay * (to strongly denounce or censure) condemn, disparage, reprobate, tear a strip offDerived terms
* excoriator * excoriationAnagrams
* ----crucify
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Verb
- I crucify myself and nothing I do is good enough for you.