About The Word Flay
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Flay
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What's The Definition Of Flay?
[v] strip the skin off
Synonyms | Synonyms for Flay: Related Terms | Find terms related to Flay: assail | attack | bark | berate | bleed | bleed white | blister | castigate | decorticate | defoliate | denude | deplume | despoil | dismember | displume | divest | drain | draw and quarter | dry | excoriate | exhaust | fleece | fustigate | impoverish | lacerate | lash | maim | mangle | milk | mutilate | pare | peel | pick clean | pick to pieces | pluck | pull apart | roast | scalp | scarify | scathe | scorch | scourge | shear | shred | skin | skin alive | slash | strip | strip bare | suck dry | take apart | tear apart | tear to pieces | tear to tatters | tongue-lash | trounce Flay In Webster's Dictionary \Flay\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flaying}.] [OE. flean, flan, AS. fle['a]n; akin to D. vlaen,
Icel. fl[=a], Sw. fl[*a], Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples? to
tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to
flat stone, flaw.]
To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an
ox; to flay the green earth.
With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. --Shak.
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