The meaning of FLAY is to strip off the skin or surface of : skin. How to use flay in a sentence.

Flaying, also known as skinning, is a method of slow and painful torture and/or execution in which skin is removed from the body. A dead animal may be flayed when preparing it to be used as …

Idiom flay someone alive (Definition of flayed from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

flay somebody/yourself (formal) to criticize somebody/yourself severely He flayed himself for his lack of tact. Her dark eyes flayed him.

Define flayed. flayed synonyms, flayed pronunciation, flayed translation, English dictionary definition of flayed. tr.v. flayed , flay·ing , flays 1. To strip off the skin or outer covering of. 2. To …

FLAY definition: to strip off the skin or outer covering of. See examples of flay used in a sentence.

When someone flays an animal or person, they remove their skin, usually when they are dead. The chef's assistants had flayed the skin off it. [VERB noun] To remain together was like …

Nowadays it more commonly means to criticize harshly someone or something, usually in public, leaving them raw and wounded. To be flayed alive was a common punishment in ancient …

FLAY definition: 1. to remove the skin from a person's or animal's body 2. to whip a person or animal so hard that…. Learn more.

He was flayed [=severely criticized] by the media for his thoughtless comments.