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Meanings of flaying in English
Method of slow and painful execution in which skin is removed from the body.
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Examples for "skinning"
Examples for "skinning"
1
A long, flexible blade for boning meat and filleting or skinning fish.
2
Aside from skinning the animal, she did nothing to prepare the meat.
3
We'll help you with the skinning, but it will take some time.
4
Piute and Peon were skinning coyotes by the blaze of the fire.
5
By the time Kalus finished skinning the carcass it was nearly dark.
1
Since then I've been told that all animals can't be skinned alive.
2
If a delegate ends up dead, the provost will have me skinned alive.
3
If we were schoolboys, we should all be skinned alive for our ignorance!
4
I thought for a second she'd been skinned alive.
5
The first guard had gone pale, realizing how close he'd come to being skinned alive.
Usage of flaying in English
1
The god of course triumphed, and punished Marsyas by flaying him alive.
2
Each tree doomed to this flaying process was first attacked by Creedle.
3
There were two girls who were flaying each other outside the 'Grand-Balcony.'
4
He felt Ruin's fury pummeling him, flaying him, ravenous to destroy him.
5
Letty, on the other hand, is verbally flaying those criminals alive.
6
As I approached, she was flaying the delivery men with sarcasm.
7
S. Bartholomew flourishes his flaying-knife and dripping skin with a glare of menace.
8
What could it do to her that the flaying knives couldn't?
9
The spotlights were moving around the street, flaying open the night.
10
One learns more examining one's own conscience than dissecting and flaying others alive.
11
She looked around, the red walls quivering and the music flaying her ears.
12
Now, git up, Buck! he yelled suddenly, flaying the sand with his switch.
13
We occupied the forenoon in flaying a number of dogs.
14
Watched him step forward and bend to the flaying knife.
15
His education was to proceed yet a while longer by the process of flaying.
16
Only then would the flaying of Father Dagon be avenged.
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