flay
verb (used with object)
to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
flays
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present tense formof flay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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With surgical precision and raucous glee, Row flays his characters and exposes their smugness.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023
He similarly flays the response to the recent documentary about Michael Jackson and riskily spotlights a ten-year-old kid sitting in the front row.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 13, 2019
He chills out with a single to deep cover, then Smith flays a cut behind point for four.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2016
In the harum-scarum batting has been beautiful strokeplay, the off-drives of Bell and the clips through leg of Root, the innovation and aggression of Warner and the counter-attacking flays of Moeen Ali.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2015
Who said to the statesmen:— "Power is a flame That flays and blisters If you play at the game."
From The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
