Flay : v. tr. Strip of his skin (a body), skin. Flay un rabbit.
In the past, certain criminals were skinned alive.
Flayed. He screams as if he was skinned, very loud. He screams before we flay him, for
Nothing at all.
Injury by cutting the skin superficially: scratching, scraping, excoriating, scratching.
Start superficially, scratch.
This wine grazes the throat: scrape, grate.
Discordant sounds that scratch the ears.
To distort, to pronounce askew: to cripple.
It grazes all the proper names. Flay French.
Make (a client) pay too much: stamp it, extort it.