
Excoriation (noun)
The act of excoriating or flaying.
Excoriation (noun)
The excoriated place, or the state of being excoriated or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
Excoriation (noun)
A denouncing.
Abrasion (noun)
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. First attested in the mid 17th century.page=7
Abrasion (noun)
The substance thus rubbed off; debris. First attested in the mid 18th century.
Abrasion (noun)
The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it. First attested in the mid 19th century.
Abrasion (noun)
An abraded, scraped, or worn area. First attested in the mid 20th century.
Abrasion (noun)
A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away. First attested in the mid 20th century.
Abrasion (noun)
The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
Abrasion (noun)
the process of scraping or wearing something away
“the metal is resistant to abrasion”
Abrasion (noun)
an area damaged by scraping or wearing away
“there were cuts and abrasions to the lips and jaw”