Home › Words › E › excarnificateexcarnificateexcarnificate means to strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture.EtymologyFrom Latin ex (“out”) + carnificatus, past participle carnificare (“to carnify”). Compare Latin excarnificare (“to tear to pieces, torment”). See carnify.verbTo strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.excarnate 86% match — Deprived or stripped of flesh. vs excarnificate →excarnation 76% match — The act of removing flesh. vs excarnificate →deflesh 75% match — To remove the flesh from someone or something. vs excarnificate →unflesh 73% match — To strip of flesh.; To reduce to a skeleton. vs excarnificate →defleshing 71% match — The act of removing the flesh. vs excarnificate →decrucify 68% match — To remove from the cross of crucifixion. vs excarnificate →excoriate 68% match — to remove the skin and/or fur of, to flay, to skin vs excarnificate →decarnate 65% match — No longer incarnate. vs excarnificate →