Flay

v. t.

1.

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. [imp. & p. p. Flayed (flād); p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying.] With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. - Shak.

Verb

1.

flay - strip the skin off

assail, attack, bark, berate, bleed, bleed white, blister, castigate, decorticate, defoliate, denude, deplume, despoil, dismember, displume, divest, drain, draw and quarter, dry, excoriate, exhaust, fleece, fustigate, impoverish, lacerate, lash, maim, mangle, milk, mutilate, pare, peel, pick clean, pick to pieces, pluck, pull apart, roast, scalp, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, shear, shred, skin, skin alive, slash, strip, strip bare, suck dry, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tongue-lash, trounce