flay
verb (used with object)
to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
has flayed
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present perfectof flay (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Dr. William Eleazar Barton, foremost Lincoln scholar, has flayed such gossip as baseless and untrue.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Liberty has flayed Prohibition, on occasion, on its editorial page; has published articles revealing the iniquities of bootleggers and Prohibition agents.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would be an understatement to say that Malcolm Muggeridge has debunked Butler: he has flayed him, skinned him alive.
From Time Magazine Archive
His arm is impotent; not so his satire, which still in its velvet covering bears the fearful knife that has flayed alive so many a Maryas.
From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various
