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flay verb
/fleɪ/ v [T] Definition
•
to remove the skin from a person's or animal's body•
to whip a person or animal so hard that some of their skin comes offfigurative The critics really flayed (= severely criticized) his new book.
(Definition of flay verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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