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Meanings of skinned alive in English

Russian
сдирание кожи
Portuguese
esfolamento
Spanish
despellejado
Catalan
escorxament
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Method of slow and painful execution in which skin is removed from the body.

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сдирание кожи
Usage of skinned alive in English
1
Since then I've been told that all animals can't be skinned alive.
Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan
2
If a delegate ends up dead, the provost will have me skinned alive.
Spellwright
3
If we were schoolboys, we should all be skinned alive for our ignorance!
All Around the Moon
4
I thought for a second she'd been skinned alive.
The frailty of flesh
5
The first guard had gone pale, realizing how close he'd come to being skinned alive.
Swan Song
6
Maybe I won't court-martial him, Tolliver thought, just have him flogged and then skinned alive.
Red inferno: 1945
7
At the end of forty minutes' work Bonfire half believed he had been skinned alive.
Horses Nine / Stories of Harness and Saddle
8
I got nearly skinned alive, and the Christmas beef and blanket wore stopped from our folks.
The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel
9
He ought to be skinned alive, I say.
Honey-Sweet
10
BARTHOLOMEW, an unfortunate saint who was skinned alive.
Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date / Biographical Dictionary of the...
11
Shouldn't you like to be present at a scalping-match, George, and see a fellow skinned alive?
The Virginians
12
Soon after Sargon began his operations in the north he captured Bagdatti and had him skinned alive.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
13
The sensation is one of being skinned alive, and one plunge is all that one cares for.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It
14
Why we shall be skinned alive if we have to pay all this money back to Government.
Castle Richmond
15
It's the kind of sound you associate with cats being skinned alive, or slasher movies, or mediaeval torture-fests.
The Rhesus Chart
16
On the other hand, when you compared that to getting skinned alive, hey, not much of a dilemma.
Gutshot straight
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