flay
verb (used with object)
to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
had flayed
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past perfectof flay.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike."
From Time Magazine Archive
Only that morning Pilsudski had flayed the Witos Government in an interview printed by the Warsaw press.
From Time Magazine Archive
Methodists in other States had flayed their Ohio brethren for being swept off their feet.
From Time Magazine Archive
At Mexico City a leading newspaper, Excelsior, reported the "Calles terror" as hysterically as it had flayed "Coolidge hypocrisy" the day before.
From Time Magazine Archive
All my nerves felt raw now, as though the dream had flayed me.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
