"excorticate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin ex (“out”), from cortex, corticis (“bark”).",
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      "form": "excorticates",
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          "ref": "1821, John Knowles, An Inquiry Into the Means which Have Been Taken to Preserve the British Navy […]",
          "text": "The sap-wood of the excorticated winter-felled timber, kept in piles in his Majesty's yards, has rotted",
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          "ref": "1842, Albert Smith, “Mr. Ledbury's Adventures at Home and Abroad (Chapter II)”, in Bentley's Miscellany",
          "text": "His mouth was dry and parched; his hands red and swollen, and looking about the nails as if he had been excorticating millions of new walnuts.",
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        "To strip of bark, shell or skin."
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          "shell",
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        "(archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin."
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          "word": "decorticate"
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          "word": "delibrate"
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  "word": "excorticate"
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        "(archaic or obsolete) To strip of bark, shell or skin."
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