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Excoriate vs Inveigh - What's the difference?

excoriate | inveigh |

As verbs the difference between excoriate and inveigh

is that excoriate is to wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay while inveigh is .

excoriate

English

Verb

(excoriat)
  • 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:
    • Madeleina di Farja had described Ori, and Cutter had envisaged an angry, frantic, pugnacious boy eager to fight, excoriating his comrades for supposed quiescence.
  • * 2006 , Patrick Healy " 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 off

    Derived terms

    * excoriator * excoriation

    Anagrams

    * ----

    inveigh

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
    • I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
  • * 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
    • Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
  • * 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
    • Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
  • * 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
    • After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
  • (obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
  • * c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
    • He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.

    Derived terms

    * inveigher * inveighing