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Flay Definition And Meaning
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 See Also \| pare \| peel \| skin 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.

Flay Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flay?

[v] strip the skin off

Synonyms | Synonyms for Flay:

See Also | pare | peel | skin

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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