flay
f lay
- v strip the skin off
- There are statistics to back up every point in that sad litany, but I also found people eager to flay nearly every statistic.
- But President Hoover, so often unlucky, picked a bad day in which to flay short wheat speculators as the cause of depressed prices.
- And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs .