flay
verb (used with object)
to strip off the skin or outer covering of.
was flaying
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past progressiveof flay.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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By 1916 the New Republic was behind President Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt was flaying it.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suffering was flaying the naked despair and yearning; and just then Temptation knocked softly and pitifully at the door of the outer room!
From Joyce of the North Woods by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
One of his lawyers had the floor and was flaying Eaton with a vitriolic tongue, the while men craned forward all over the room to get a glimpse of the traitor's face.
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
