Synonyms for flay

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fley

Phonetic Transcription : fleɪ

Définition of flay

Origin : Old English flean "to skin" (strong verb, past tense flog, past participle flagen), from Proto-Germanic *flakhanan (cf. Middle Dutch vlaen, Old High German flahan, Old Norse fla), from PIE root *plak- (2) "to hit" (cf. Greek plessein "to strike," Lithuanian plešiu "to tear;" see plague (n.)). Related: Flayed; flaying.

verb remove skin, bark, hide, etc.
verb criticize

Example sentences :

I've a right to the money, and I'll flay him alive if I don't get it!
Extract from : « The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade » by Harry Moore

He drew out his knife and ripping the otter up he began to flay him.
Extract from : « The Children of Odin » by Padraic Colum

His invectives and vituperations bite and flay like steel whips.
Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys

They strip them bare, flay them and cut away the flesh about the foot.
Extract from : « The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles » by Jean Henri Fabre

To flay off your skin, that I may make me a warm cap against the winter.
Extract from : « The Book of Stories for the Storyteller » by Fanny E. Coe

Your string will flay your arm ere you reach your up-shot this day.
Extract from : « Sir Nigel » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Flay me an ape incontinent, to clap him to the dukes breast!
Extract from : « The Mystery and Romance of Alchemy and Pharmacy » by Charles John Samuel Thompson

Tom surprised her in this tempest, and laughed at her until she longed to flay him.
Extract from : « The Wyndam Girls » by Marion Ames Taggart

What fatality in the utterance of a single name—what power to flay!
Extract from : « The U.P. Trail » by Zane Grey

Even with the knowledge that Conetta must suffer with the rest of us, I could not flay him as he deserved.
Extract from : « Pirates' Hope » by Francis Lynde

Antonyms for flay

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