Flay

All straightway gird them to the feast. These flay / the ribs and thighs, and lay the entrails bare. / Those slice the flesh, and split the quivering prey, / and tend the fires and set the cauldrons in array.

Her letters lacerate my heart, flay it wide open bleeding - yet I read every word.

If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape

The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.