flay

[US]/fleɪ/
[UK]/fleɪ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. strip off the skin; plunder; criticize severely.
Word Forms
Present Participleflaying
Third Person Singularflays
Past Tenseflayed
Past Participleflayed

Phrases & Collocations

flay alive

flay the skin

Example Sentences

the captured general was flayed alive.

she flayed the white skin from the flesh.

Matthew flayed them viciously with a branch.

You cannot flay the same ox twice.

The teacher flayed the idle students.

one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles.

he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform.

plundering cities and temples and flaying the people with requisitions.

He was so angry he nearly flayed his horse alive.

Ialdabode somehow catches Shuluth the mind flayer flatfooted, and attacks with the attack mode ego whip as a partial action.

There he was condemned to death by the king, and before being beheaded he was flayed alive.

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