excoriation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ex=co=ri=a=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

excoriation, n. [Cf. F. excoriation.].

•  The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.  [1913 Webster]
•  Stripping of possession; spoliation.  [1913 Webster]

  "A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort."  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

excoriation

Divestment

N divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis, divested, bare, naked, nude, undressed, undraped, denuded, exposed, in dishabille, bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless, in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit, in puris naturalibus, with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked, bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand, out at elbows, barefoot, bareback, barebacked, leafless, napless, hairless.