flay
verb (used with object)
to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
flayer
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a word derived from
flay.
Example Sentences
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Unless a mind flayer takes them out first.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2021
Thersites skulks away, silenced, his Iliadic cameo at an end—but his long literary career as self-appointed flayer of heroic vanities is just beginning.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, at 61, a flayer of warriors, he includes a savage portrait of "Tiger" Clemenceau in Mother and Son.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Caboche, a flayer of beasts in the shambles of Hotel-Dieu, and Master John de Troyes, a surgeon with a talent for speaking, were their most active associates.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by Robert Black
