Definition of flay in English:

flay

verb fleɪfleɪ

[with object]

1Strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass)
the captured general was flayed alive
Example sentencesExamples
- On he goes, pausing to read his poems by pictures of the screaming faces of The Skinned Man, flayed alive as a sacrifice by Aztec priests, and a skull from The Day of the Dead.
- There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea.
- The witch of this city hall scandal was being flayed alive.
- They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things.
- The men moved in among the densely packed animals, smashed skulls with five-foot hickory clubs and flayed the twitching corpses.
- A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's.
- The corpses had not been flayed or dismembered in any way, but succumbed to their stab wounds and blood loss.
- It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery.
- He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning.
- The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death.
- His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that.
- She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive!
- Employees who do not comply will be flayed alive and slowly chopped into little pieces.
- It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer.
- Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo.
- His carcass was also flayed, the skin torn into pieces and sold as souvenirs.
- ‘And you'd find out what it's like to be flayed alive,’ I responded with an unnatural calm.
- If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive.
- It's yet another reason why they all should be crucified and flayed alive.
- Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment.
Synonyms
skin, strip the skin off
technical excoriate
1. 1.1 Strip (the skin) off a corpse or carcass.
  she flayed the white skin from the flesh
  Example sentencesExamples
  Don't you want to see their skin flayed from their backs and made into tasteful table lamps?
  The skin and eyes look like they've been flayed off a living subject.
  Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones.
  The man didn't have time to scream as the flesh was flayed from his body by the hundreds of razor sharp blades.
  Her clothes were flayed, her exposed skin covered by hundreds of small, ripping bites.
  Some of them had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs.
  In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs.
  Had the child before her been real, she would have flayed the skin from her bones with a thousand hungry spiders.
  They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers.
  For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him.
  He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes.
  Acerbus ripped him apart, flaying his skin and then breaking his bones.
  They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror.
  This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs.
2. 1.2 Whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin.
  he flayed them viciously with a branch
  Example sentencesExamples
  One held him in a firm grasp, while the guards watched from the near; and Viro faced the butte, his back naked, as the woman flayed him again and again with a horse-whip.
  The enemy stood shocked as the heavy weapon flayed him open, and he fell to the ground.
  They should flog him and flay him if they so desire.
  The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck.
  Synonyms
  hit, strike, batter, thump, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, slap, smack, crack, thwack, cuff, buffet, maul, pelt, drub, rain blows on
3. 1.3 Criticize severely and brutally.
  he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform
  Example sentencesExamples
  Where I part company with many of the American critics who have flayed the film, is in their assumption that this is a thriller whose subject is murder, and which fails to deliver suspense before the killer is unmasked.
  Could a professional game critic ever make the transition to game designer without having the games he/she produces flayed alive by the gaming press?
  If this is something he has started doing because he is captain (remember, he was flayed in the 2003 World Cup for doing it), then it is a very curious development.
  Synonyms
  criticize, attack, berate, censure, condemn, denounce, denigrate, revile, castigate, pillory, belabour, lambaste, savage, tear/pull to pieces, find fault with, run down, abuse
  informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, roast, skewer, bad-mouth
  British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster
  North American informal pummel, cut up
  Australian/New Zealand informal bag
  rare excoriate

Derivatives

flayer

noun ˈfleɪəˈfleɪər

It was an infusion of sulphur and gold, two things flayers could not stand.
Example sentencesExamples
- He jumped and kicked the flayer square in the face, rolled to kill his speed, and managed to keep a firm grip on Kioshi and avoid getting gored by both her sword and the flayer's claws.
- A flayer's or knacker's craft was considered infamous.
- That flayer has a sense of humor if he stuffed him in the very work that this guard came for.

Origin

Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen.

Rhymes

affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea

Definition of flay in US English:

flay

verbfleɪflā

[with object]

1Peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass)
one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles
Example sentencesExamples
- Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo.
- She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive!
- If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive.
- The witch of this city hall scandal was being flayed alive.
- Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment.
- The corpses had not been flayed or dismembered in any way, but succumbed to their stab wounds and blood loss.
- A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's.
- He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning.
- Employees who do not comply will be flayed alive and slowly chopped into little pieces.
- His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that.
- ‘And you'd find out what it's like to be flayed alive,’ I responded with an unnatural calm.
- The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death.
- The men moved in among the densely packed animals, smashed skulls with five-foot hickory clubs and flayed the twitching corpses.
- It's yet another reason why they all should be crucified and flayed alive.
- It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer.
- It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery.
- His carcass was also flayed, the skin torn into pieces and sold as souvenirs.
- On he goes, pausing to read his poems by pictures of the screaming faces of The Skinned Man, flayed alive as a sacrifice by Aztec priests, and a skull from The Day of the Dead.
- They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things.
- There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea.
Synonyms
skin, strip the skin off
1. 1.1 Peel (the skin) off a corpse or carcass.
  she flayed the white skin from the flesh
  Example sentencesExamples
  He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes.
  The man didn't have time to scream as the flesh was flayed from his body by the hundreds of razor sharp blades.
  This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs.
  Her clothes were flayed, her exposed skin covered by hundreds of small, ripping bites.
  They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror.
  For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him.
  Don't you want to see their skin flayed from their backs and made into tasteful table lamps?
  Acerbus ripped him apart, flaying his skin and then breaking his bones.
  The skin and eyes look like they've been flayed off a living subject.
  They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers.
  In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs.
  Some of them had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs.
  Had the child before her been real, she would have flayed the skin from her bones with a thousand hungry spiders.
  Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones.
2. 1.2 Whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin.
  Matthew flayed them viciously with a branch
  Example sentencesExamples
  The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck.
  They should flog him and flay him if they so desire.
  One held him in a firm grasp, while the guards watched from the near; and Viro faced the butte, his back naked, as the woman flayed him again and again with a horse-whip.
  The enemy stood shocked as the heavy weapon flayed him open, and he fell to the ground.
  Synonyms
  hit, strike, batter, thump, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, slap, smack, crack, thwack, cuff, buffet, maul, pelt, drub, rain blows on
3. 1.3 Criticize severely and brutally.
  he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform
  Example sentencesExamples
  Where I part company with many of the American critics who have flayed the film, is in their assumption that this is a thriller whose subject is murder, and which fails to deliver suspense before the killer is unmasked.
  If this is something he has started doing because he is captain (remember, he was flayed in the 2003 World Cup for doing it), then it is a very curious development.
  Could a professional game critic ever make the transition to game designer without having the games he/she produces flayed alive by the gaming press?
  Synonyms
  criticize, attack, berate, censure, condemn, denounce, denigrate, revile, castigate, pillory, belabour, lambaste, savage, pull to pieces, tear to pieces, find fault with, run down, abuse

Origin

Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen.

单词	flay
释义	Definition of flay in English: flay verb fleɪfleɪ [with object] 1Strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass) the captured general was flayed alive Example sentencesExamples On he goes, pausing to read his poems by pictures of the screaming faces of The Skinned Man, flayed alive as a sacrifice by Aztec priests, and a skull from The Day of the Dead. There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea. The witch of this city hall scandal was being flayed alive. They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things. The men moved in among the densely packed animals, smashed skulls with five-foot hickory clubs and flayed the twitching corpses. A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's. The corpses had not been flayed or dismembered in any way, but succumbed to their stab wounds and blood loss. It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery. He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning. The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death. His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that. She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive! Employees who do not comply will be flayed alive and slowly chopped into little pieces. It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer. Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo. His carcass was also flayed, the skin torn into pieces and sold as souvenirs. ‘And you'd find out what it's like to be flayed alive,’ I responded with an unnatural calm. If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive. It's yet another reason why they all should be crucified and flayed alive. Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment. Synonyms skin, strip the skin off technical excoriate 1.1 Strip (the skin) off a corpse or carcass. she flayed the white skin from the flesh Example sentencesExamples Don't you want to see their skin flayed from their backs and made into tasteful table lamps? The skin and eyes look like they've been flayed off a living subject. Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones. The man didn't have time to scream as the flesh was flayed from his body by the hundreds of razor sharp blades. Her clothes were flayed, her exposed skin covered by hundreds of small, ripping bites. Some of them had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs. In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs. Had the child before her been real, she would have flayed the skin from her bones with a thousand hungry spiders. They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers. For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him. He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes. Acerbus ripped him apart, flaying his skin and then breaking his bones. They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror. This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs. 1.2 Whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin. he flayed them viciously with a branch Example sentencesExamples One held him in a firm grasp, while the guards watched from the near; and Viro faced the butte, his back naked, as the woman flayed him again and again with a horse-whip. The enemy stood shocked as the heavy weapon flayed him open, and he fell to the ground. They should flog him and flay him if they so desire. The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck. Synonyms hit, strike, batter, thump, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, slap, smack, crack, thwack, cuff, buffet, maul, pelt, drub, rain blows on 1.3 Criticize severely and brutally. he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform Example sentencesExamples Where I part company with many of the American critics who have flayed the film, is in their assumption that this is a thriller whose subject is murder, and which fails to deliver suspense before the killer is unmasked. Could a professional game critic ever make the transition to game designer without having the games he/she produces flayed alive by the gaming press? If this is something he has started doing because he is captain (remember, he was flayed in the 2003 World Cup for doing it), then it is a very curious development. Synonyms criticize, attack, berate, censure, condemn, denounce, denigrate, revile, castigate, pillory, belabour, lambaste, savage, tear/pull to pieces, find fault with, run down, abuse informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, roast, skewer, bad-mouth British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster North American informal pummel, cut up Australian/New Zealand informal bag rare excoriate Derivatives flayer noun ˈfleɪəˈfleɪər It was an infusion of sulphur and gold, two things flayers could not stand. Example sentencesExamples He jumped and kicked the flayer square in the face, rolled to kill his speed, and managed to keep a firm grip on Kioshi and avoid getting gored by both her sword and the flayer's claws. A flayer's or knacker's craft was considered infamous. That flayer has a sense of humor if he stuffed him in the very work that this guard came for. Origin Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen. Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, hay, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea Definition of flay in US English: flay verbfleɪflā [with object] 1Peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass) one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles Example sentencesExamples Pärt was looking at Anish Kapoor's immense sculpture ‘Marsyas’, named after the Greek satyr who was flayed alive after losing a musical contest with Apollo. She shall be transfixed to your Temple doors and flayed alive! If I had the power, I would have every single one of these inhuman monsters responsible for this travesty flayed alive. The witch of this city hall scandal was being flayed alive. Some might argue that a man being impaled, flayed alive and left to bake in the desert could hardly be categorized as wholesomely edifying entertainment. The corpses had not been flayed or dismembered in any way, but succumbed to their stab wounds and blood loss. A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's. He was flayed and his skin mounted on the door as a warning. Employees who do not comply will be flayed alive and slowly chopped into little pieces. His implication is that therefore they deserved to be mistreated - starved, beaten, flayed alive - but the key point of those who object to torture is that no-one deserves to be treated like that. ‘And you'd find out what it's like to be flayed alive,’ I responded with an unnatural calm. The now ex-king heard rumours of the impending showdown and when the group arrived had them arrested, ordered they be flayed alive and flogged to death. The men moved in among the densely packed animals, smashed skulls with five-foot hickory clubs and flayed the twitching corpses. It's yet another reason why they all should be crucified and flayed alive. It seemed almost as if he was being flayed alive and his flesh seared away, layer by layer. It shows a man being flayed alive - slowly, methodically and with increasing savagery. His carcass was also flayed, the skin torn into pieces and sold as souvenirs. On he goes, pausing to read his poems by pictures of the screaming faces of The Skinned Man, flayed alive as a sacrifice by Aztec priests, and a skull from The Day of the Dead. They said they would kill me, flay me and a lot of other things. There were even some claiming that a traitor's death was too good for her, that she should be executed in the old way: flayed alive and then thrown into the sea. Synonyms skin, strip the skin off 1.1 Peel (the skin) off a corpse or carcass. she flayed the white skin from the flesh Example sentencesExamples He would flay the flesh of unresurrected corpses and use the skin to make lampshades and chair covers and clothes. The man didn't have time to scream as the flesh was flayed from his body by the hundreds of razor sharp blades. This horrible spectacle included having his skin flayed with iron combs. Her clothes were flayed, her exposed skin covered by hundreds of small, ripping bites. They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror. For instance, God did not tell Abraham to flay Isaac's skin and beat him mercilessly before sacrificing him. Don't you want to see their skin flayed from their backs and made into tasteful table lamps? Acerbus ripped him apart, flaying his skin and then breaking his bones. The skin and eyes look like they've been flayed off a living subject. They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers. In some cases the corpse has been flayed to display the muscles and internal organs. Some of them had their skins flayed off them and their flesh was flung to the dogs. Had the child before her been real, she would have flayed the skin from her bones with a thousand hungry spiders. Death squads are operating with official sanction and running their own torture centres where detainees have their skin flayed from their bones. 1.2 Whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin. Matthew flayed them viciously with a branch Example sentencesExamples The creatures seemed upset and began to flay the skin on their backs with flails and whips they carried in holsters around the thick trunk of their neck. They should flog him and flay him if they so desire. One held him in a firm grasp, while the guards watched from the near; and Viro faced the butte, his back naked, as the woman flayed him again and again with a horse-whip. The enemy stood shocked as the heavy weapon flayed him open, and he fell to the ground. Synonyms hit, strike, batter, thump, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, slap, smack, crack, thwack, cuff, buffet, maul, pelt, drub, rain blows on 1.3 Criticize severely and brutally. he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform Example sentencesExamples Where I part company with many of the American critics who have flayed the film, is in their assumption that this is a thriller whose subject is murder, and which fails to deliver suspense before the killer is unmasked. If this is something he has started doing because he is captain (remember, he was flayed in the 2003 World Cup for doing it), then it is a very curious development. Could a professional game critic ever make the transition to game designer without having the games he/she produces flayed alive by the gaming press? Synonyms criticize, attack, berate, censure, condemn, denounce, denigrate, revile, castigate, pillory, belabour, lambaste, savage, pull to pieces, tear to pieces, find fault with, run down, abuse Origin Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen.
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