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# flay

«flay» in Mova's school dictionary: **to strip the skin off it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (flays, flayed, flaying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To flay an animal is to strip the skin off it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#m1)

2) (old use, cruel) To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, a cruel punishment, or the work of skinning a calf after it is killed

### examples

- Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#x1)
- What you smell so must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flay» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flay/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.