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.
The chemical composition of redoul thus makes a tanning substance, capable of transforming recently flayed animal skins into leather, which is then rot resistant, flexible and relatively impermeable.
Anna is taken to a surgeon and is flayed alive.
That night, he is attacked and brutally flayed.
According to legend, a cat was flayed alive to frighten the enemy with its screams.
In the end, the patient writhed, his chest flayed, arms and legs cut off at the elbows and at the knees.
As a result, the king had him arrested and flayed alive.
The fillets are not flayed, and the grayish skin side is placed faced down.
The corch (flayed) figures were made to look like the skin was removed from the body, exposing the muscles and vessels of the model.
