The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decorticate \De*cor"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Decorticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Decorticating.] [L.
decorticatus, p. p. of decorticare to bark; de- + cortex
bark.]
To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to
peel; to hull. ``Great barley dried and decorticated.''
--Arbuthnot.
Wiktionary
a. Having had the outer covering removed
Usage examples of "decorticated".
He hoped to travel to California to watch the crop being decorticated, seeing himself as a benefactor to mankind who would enable people to work shorter hours and have more time for "spiritual development.
The lottery ticket suckers, decorticated by hope and numerology, may as well be victims of Post-Timequake Apathy.
We all know what the dummies will do” – he gestured at the hummocks in which the decorticated men were cradled – “and we all know what the new people will ask.