| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.[Websters] 2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: excorticating, excorticated, excorticates, excorticater, excorticaters, excorticatingly and excorticatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXCORTICATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
| Etymology:Excorticate \Ex*cor"ti*cate\, transitive verb. [Latin expression ex out, from cortex, corticis, bark.]. (references) |
