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.
Source: tatoeba (6785213)
Flay
//fleɪ//
Synonyms for "flay" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (34)
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Translations
49 translations across 36 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- δέρω verb (to strip skin off)
Arabic
2 entries- سلخ verb (to strip skin off)
- سَلَخَ verb (to strip skin off)
Aromanian
1 entries- bilescu verb (to strip skin off)
Bulgarian
1 entries- одирам verb (to strip skin off)
Czech
2 entries- stáhnout kůži verb (to strip skin off)
- stáhnout z kůže verb (to strip skin off)
Danish
1 entries- flå verb (to strip skin off)
Dutch
2 entries- stropen verb (to strip skin off)
- villen verb (to strip skin off)
Finnish
1 entries- nylkeä verb (to strip skin off)
French
1 entries- écorcher verb (to strip skin off)
Galician
1 entries- esfolar verb (to strip skin off)
German
1 entries- häuten verb (to strip skin off)
Hungarian
1 entries- nyúz verb (to strip skin off)
Irish
1 entries- feann verb (to strip skin off)
Italian
1 entries- spellare verb (to strip skin off)
Japanese
2 entries- 剥ぎ取る verb (to strip skin off)
- 剥ぐ verb (to strip skin off)
Kabuverdianu
2 entries- sfola verb (to strip skin off)
- sfolá verb (to strip skin off)
Kazakh
1 entries- сою verb (to strip skin off)
Latin
2 entries- dēcutiō verb (to strip skin off)
- dēglūbō verb (to strip skin off)
Lithuanian
1 entries- di̇̀rti verb (to strip skin off)
Māori
1 entries- tīhore verb (to strip skin off)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- flå verb (to strip skin off)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- flå verb (to strip skin off)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- یوزمك verb (to strip skin off)
Polish
1 entries- oskalpować verb (to strip skin off)
Portuguese
1 entries- esfolar verb (to strip skin off)
Quechua
1 entries- iqhay verb (to strip skin off)
Romanian
1 entries- beli verb (to strip skin off)
Russian
2 entries- свежева́ть verb (to strip skin off)
- сдира́ть шку́ру verb (to strip skin off)
Sicilian
1 entries- spiḍḍari verb (to strip skin off)
Slovak
3 entries- odrať verb (to strip skin off)
- stiahnuť verb (to strip skin off)
- stiahnuť kožu verb (to strip skin off)
Spanish
2 entries- desollar verb (to strip skin off)
- despellejar verb (to strip skin off)
Swedish
2 entries- flänga verb (to strip skin off)
- flå verb (to strip skin off)
Turkish
1 entries- yüzmek verb (to strip skin off)
Ukrainian
2 entries- здерти шкіру verb (to strip skin off)
- здирати шкіру verb (to strip skin off)
Welsh
2 entries- blingo verb (to strip skin off)
- digroeni verb (to strip skin off)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- ter'embeyat verb (to strip skin off)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Her letters lacerate my heart, flay it wide open bleeding - yet I read every word.
Source: tatoeba (11000006)
If they'd let me have my way, I could have flayed him into shape
Source: wiktionary
The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.
Source: wiktionary
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