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excoriate
vs
tear a strip off someone
excoriate
verb
To strongly denounce or censure.
To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.
tear a strip off someone
verb
To scold vigorously.
How often have the words
excoriate
and
tear a strip off someone
occurred in a corpus of books?
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