flayed

verbremove skin, bark, hide, etc.

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Word Origin & History

Old English flean "to skin" (strong verb, past tense flog, past participle flagen), from Proto-Germanic *flakhanan (cf. Middle Dutch vlaen, Old High German flahan, Old Norse fla), from PIE root *plak- (2) "to hit" (cf. Greek plessein "to strike," Lithuanian plešiu "to tear;" see plague (n.)). Related: Flayed; flaying.

Example Sentences for flayed

They have only to be flayed, and their skins inflated, and they will readily give us a passage.

Then they flayed the monster, and the next morning the hide was shown to his majesty.

She lived amongst them, a passive victim, quivering in every nerve, as if she were flayed.

Their only clothing is a breechcloth and a short skirt of flayed bark.

No doubt they would have flayed me alive, have sold my skin, and devoured, etc.

A sensitive European, travelling there, feels at once starved and flayed.

To strip the fat off a flayed seal, or the blubber from a whale.

The disobedient were flayed alive or roasted over a slow fire.

I have no doubt that with a flayed individual it would be otherwise.

It would be right to have flayed him and to have made bags of his skin.

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Synonyms for flayed

verb remove skin, bark, hide, etc.

Antonyms for flayed

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