0 present participle of flay
1 to remove the skin from a person's or animal's body
figurative The critics really flayed (= severely criticized) his new book.
Who "punishes" those (he finds offensive) in particular, by flaying his victims alive.
Other variations include splitting apart and flaying.
This is often referred to as flaying alive.
The chest has an incision, made in order to extract the heart of the victim before flaying.
He has been emotionally scarred by witnessing the flaying of a superior officer and several nights spent in a dried-up well.
The instruction in hide flaying and the treatment of offals is being widely availed of and much improvement has been effected in these branches of the trade.
Flaying signed the order, the justice of the peace was in great difficulty.
The papers even said that they were flaying them alive.
