"excarnificate" meaning in All languages combined

See excarnificate on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: excarnificates [present, singular, third-person], excarnificating [participle, present], excarnificated [participle, past], excarnificated [past]
Etymology: From Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|ex||out}} Latin ex (“out”), {{cog|la|excarnificare||to tear to pieces, torment}} Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} excarnificate (third-person singular simple present excarnificates, present participle excarnificating, simple past and past participle excarnificated)
  1. (transitive, obsolete) To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture. Tags: obsolete, transitive Synonyms: excarnate

Inflected forms

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