Excoriate vs Vitriol - What's the difference?
excoriate | vitriol |
As a verb excoriate is to wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay. As a noun vitriol is vitriol (sulfuric acid).
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
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
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vitriol English
Noun
( en noun)
(dated) sulphuric acid and various metal sulphates
(by extension) bitterly abusive language
* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):
- For days, online forums sparked with outrage against politicians and race organizers, a tone that turned to vitriol against runners, even from some shaming other runners for being selfish.
Derived terms
* vitriolic
* oil of vitriol
* blue vitriol
* green vitriol
* hurl vitriol
* iron vitriol
* white vitriol
Verb
( en verb)
to subject someone to bitter verbal abuse
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