Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
2. Stripping of possession; spoliation.
Divestment Roget’s Thesaurus §226
N. divestment, taking off, nudity, bareness, undress, dishabille, the altogether, nudation, denudation, decortication, depilation, excoriation, desquamation, molting, exfoliation, trichosis
V. divest, uncover &c. (cover ), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c. (dress, enrobe ), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin
Adj. 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
No Bible verses found for "excoriation".