English-Thai Dictionary

flay

VT ตำหนิ อย่างรุนแรง  วิพากษ์วิจารณ์ อย่างรุนแรง  castigate excoriate upbraid tam-ni-yang-run-raeng

 

flay

VT ถลก หนัง  ลอก  ta-lok-ngan

 

flay

VT ปอกลอก  ลวง เอา ทรัพย์สิน ไป  pok-lok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLAY

v.t.[Gr. whence bark, rind; probably a contracted word. ] 1. To skin; to strip off the skin of an animal; as, to flay an ox.
2. To take off the skin or surface of any thing. [Not used. ]

 

FLAYED

pp. Skinned; stripped of the skin.

 

FLAYER

n.One who strips off the skin.

 

FLAYING

ppr. Stripping off the skin.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLAY

Flay, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Flaying. ] Etym: [OE. flean, flan, AS. fleán; akin to D. vlaen, Icel. fla, Sw. flå, Dan. flaae, cf. Lith. ples to tear, plyszti, v.i., to burst tear; perh. akin to E. flag to flat stone, flaw. ]

 

Defn: To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth. With her nails She 'll flay thy wolfish visage. Shak.

 

FLAYER

FLAYER Flay "er, n.

 

Defn: One who strips off the skin.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

flay

flay |flā fleɪ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] peel the skin off (a corpse or carcass ): one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles. • 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. DERIVATIVES flay er noun ORIGIN Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen.

 

Oxford Dictionary

flay

flay |fleɪ | ▶verb [ with obj. ] strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass ): the captured general was flayed alive . • strip (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: he flayed them viciously with a branch. • criticize severely and brutally: he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform. DERIVATIVES flayer noun ORIGIN Old English flēan, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch vlaen.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

flay

flay verb 1 the body was flayed to show the musculature: skin, strip the skin off; Medicine excoriate. 2 informal he flayed his critics. See criticize.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

flay

flay verb 1 one shoulder had been flayed to reveal the muscles: skin, strip the skin off; technical excoriate. 2 he flayed the government for not moving fast enough on economic reform: criticize, attack, berate, censure, condemn, denounce, denigrate, revile, castigate, pillory, belabour, lambaste, savage, tear /pull to pieces, find fault with, run down, abuse; informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, roast, skewer, bad-mouth; Brit. informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster; N. Amer. informal pummel, cut up; Austral. /NZ informal bag; rare excoriate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

flay

flay /fleɪ /動詞 他動詞 1 〈人 〉を酷評する .2 ｟文 ｠…を激しく (むちで )打つ .3 …の皮をはぐ .