excoriate

Every blow that shakes it will serve to harden it against a future stroke; as constant labour thickens the skin of the hand, and strengthens its muscles instead of wasting them away: so that a day of arduous toil, that might excoriate a lady's palm, would make no sensible impression on that of a hardy ploughman.

As he rubs himself upon a large jack-towel, blowing like a military sort of diver just come up, his hair curling tighter and tighter on his sunburnt temples the more he rubs it so that it looks as if it never could be loosened by any less coercive instrument than an iron rake or a curry-comb--as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turning his head from side to side the more conveniently to excoriate his throat, and standing with his body well bent forward to keep the wet from his martial legs, Phil, on his knees lighting a fire, looks round as if it were enough washing for him to see all that done, and sufficient renovation for one day to take in the superfluous health his master throws off.

It's hard to review this book without feeling you are a compromised cog in the very system that Kobek sets out to satirise and excoriate over 300-odd blistering and often very funny pages.

In the Commons on Monday she got to her feet to excoriate the unknown Tory MP who talked metaphorically of "putting the knife" into Theresa.

I would like to excoriate the United states offensive move to consent Jeruselum as Israel's capital on 6th of December.

Of the series, Sigma Delta Chi judges said: "There are editorial campaigns that excoriate government officials, take on corporate giants or help free the unjustly incarcerated.

To be sure, it is proper to excoriate (as Egan does) the government boosters who lured homesteaders to the southern Plains on false premises, and the federal officials who responded with aching slowness to the unfolding catastrophe.

And it's very helpful to excoriate President Bush for his many big lies in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.

Miller, a Democrat set to retire after his term expires early next year, used 12 minutes on the Senate floor in mid-February to excoriate popular culture and declare that the nation suffers from "a deficit of decency."