0 past simple and past 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.
Some interest should be taken in that matter to ensure that the motorist is given an opportunity and is not flayed by taxes.
First, even police officers tell me that being hauled over the coals by a lawyer is like being flayed alive.
He flayed them this morning.
While the brothers were on their way to visit the princess, the flayed hare stopped them and asked them for help.
As the story goes, during a festival dinner, a priest came out wearing her flayed skin as part of the ritual.
Local legend has it that a calf once flayed alive here still haunts the place of its death with frightful bleats.
The collage of these characters lived in an interdependent fun filled atmosphere where tempers got flayed over running water or soiled towels!
The corch (flayed) figures were made to look like the skin was removed from the body, exposing the muscles and vessels of the model.
