Flay

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flay \Flay\ (fl[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flayed} (fl[=a]d); 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.
     pleszti to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst, tear; perh. akin to
     E. flag a flat stone, flaw.]
     To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an


     ox; to flay the green earth.
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           With her nails
           She 'll flay thy wolfish visage.         --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flay
       v : strip the skin off

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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