5. posh, elegant, luxurious, fancy, swanky,
SI. ritzy; expensive, high-priced, Inf. steep, excogitate, v. 1. think out, devise, contrive, figure out, invent, design; make up, hatch, create, coin, fabricate, frame, concoct, brew; think up, conceive, imagine, fancy, have ideas about, Inf. dream up, envision, envisage, visualize.
2. deliberate, ponder, weigh, evaluate, study, review, examine, check out; consider, Archaic, perpend, think on or about, contemplate, turn over in one's mind, reflect on, cogitate, meditate, ruminate, chew over, brood on, mull over, dwell on.
excommunicate, v. unchurch, expel, Inf. kick out, cut off, exclude. See - exclude (defs. 2, 3).
excommunication, n. unchurching, expulsion, ejection, ouster, exclusion. See - exclusion (defs. 2, 3).
excoriate, v. 1. strip, peel, skin, scalp, bark, husk, shuck, shell, decorticate; scrape, grate, rasp, file, grind, whet, sand, abrade, scour.
2. denounce, blame, accuse, condemn, censure; upbraid, reprove, reproach, rebuke, criticize; chastise, punish, discipline, reprimand, scold, chide; berate, objurgate, vituperate, castigate, inveigh against, rail against.
3. vilify, calumniate, malign, asperse, traduce, slander, defame, libel, blacken; disparage, depreciate, belittle, put down, stigmatize, brand; abuse, attack, flay, flog, scourge.
excrement, n. feces, fecal matter, excreta, egesta, waste matter, stools, SI. do, waste, feculence; dung, manure, muck, fertilizer, ordure, guano; droppings, night soil, dressing, cow or buffalo chips, U.S. West cow pies, coprolites, coproliths, SI. flops,
excrescence, n. 1. growth, excretion, tumor, lump, intumescence, tumefaction; swelling, protuberance, protrusion, prominence; blister, blain, boil, carbuncle, pimple, pustule, pock, whelk.
2. outgrowth, offshoot, branch, extension, appendage,
excrete, v. egest, defecate, void, pass, urinate; discharge, expel, eject, evacuate, eliminate, throw off; exude, emit, perspire, sweat,
excretion, n. 1. defecation, voidance, urination; discharge, ejection, evacuation, elimination, extrusion, exudation, secretion.
2. perspiration, sweat; urine, excrement; smegma. See - excrement, excruciate, v. agonize, torture, rack, put [s.o.] on the rack, wring, crucify, martyr; pain, wound, hurt, scathe, pierce, stab, lacerate, put [s.o.] through the wringer; torment, persecute, abuse; anguish, distress, afflict, plague, harrow, rend,
excruciating, adj. agonizing, tortuous, torturing, racking, wringing, painful; (all of pain) raw, sharp, cutting, acute, severe, intense, insufferable, unbearable, unendurable; anguishing, distressing, poignant, afflictive, plaguing, harrowing, rending; tormenting, persecuting, abusive.
excruciation, n. agony, torture, racking, wringing; torment, persecution, abuse; pain, anguish, distress, woe, harrowing, tribulation, hell; wretchedness, misery, suffering, martyrdom,
exculpate, v. acquit, clear, clear one's name, prove or declare innocent, uphold innocence, pronounce or declare not guilty, remove guilt, free from blame; exonerate, vindicate, right, set or put right, justify, warrant, defend; release, free, set free, let go, liberate, emancipate, deliver; dismiss, let off, Inf. let out of, Inf. let off the hook, Law. discharge; absolve, forgive, pardon, amnesty, excuse, remit, reprieve, respite,
exculpation, n. acquittal, acquittance, acquitting, compurgation, clearance, clearing, clearing of one's name, proof or declaration of innocence, upholding of innocence, removal of guilt, freeing from blame; exoneration, exonerating, vindication, vindicating, righting, justification, justifying; freeing, release, releasing, liberation, emancipation, deliverance, dismissal, Law. discharge; absolution, absolving, forgiving, pardon, pardoning, amnesty, excuse, excusing; remission, remitting, reprieving.
