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flay
verb
[ fleɪ ]
• strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass).
• "the captured general was flayed alive"
Similar:
skin
, strip the skin off,
excoriate
,
Origin:
Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen .