'Flay' definitions:
Definition of 'flay'
From: WordNet
verb
Strip the skin off
Definition of 'Flay'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'flay'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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