flay
- IPA[flā]
美式
- peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass)；peel (the skin) off a corpse or carcass
verb: flay, 3rd person present: flays, gerund or present participle: flaying, past tense: flayed, past participle: flayed
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass) one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles 同義詞
- ▪ peel (the skin) off a corpse or carcass she flayed the white skin from the flesh
- ▪ whip or beat (someone) so harshly as to remove their skin Matthew flayed them viciously with a branch
- ▪ criticize severely and brutally he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform 同義詞
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- IPA[fleɪ]
英式
- strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass): the captured general was flayed alive
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