Excoriate synonyms | phrases

Phrases with similar meaning for Excoriate

• rub raw

  abrade
• take to task
• criticize severely
• read the riot act

  censure
• tongue-lash
• nit-pick
• skin alive
• haul over the coals
• to criticize
• pull to pieces
• drag over the coals
• cut to bits
• find fault
• give bad press
• wear threadbare
• rake over the coals
• put someone on the griddle
• lay bare
• nit-picking
• tar and feather
• draw and quarter
• jump down throat
• in flames
• rake over coals
• read riot act
• laid bare
• tongue lash
• tear off a strip

  censure
• give a rocket

  censure
• to graze
• to bark
• putting off
• to put off
• tear to pieces
• to scrape
• to scratch
• slap on the wrist
• go for the jugular
• have a go
• pick to pieces
• give a bad press
• rap over the knuckles
• give a tongue-lashing
• fail to hit
• rap knuckles
• shot-down
• give opinion
• rub hard
• punish severely
• often physically