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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Insigne then flays an overly ambitious pass out for a goal kick and starts apologising to all and sundry.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2021
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
Using the surgical kit of New Journalism, Wolfe flays Darwin and Chomsky as imperious, self-aggrandizing snobs, each humiliated by a lower-class “clueless outsider who crashes the party of the big thinkers.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016
Frank, who scripted the crime movies Dead Again, Get Shorty and Out of Sight, flays the Block novel of Scudder’s support group: his AA sponsor Jim Faber, the barkeep Mick Ballou.
From Time ● Sep. 18, 2014
Beware the January month, beware Those hurtful days, that keenly-piercing air Which flays the herds; when icicles are cast O'er frozen earth, and sheathe the nipping blast.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
