flay
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Synonyms
baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste (or lambast), lecture, rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), rate, ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, score, tongue-lash, upbraid
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One is contested on grass as scores of limbs flay about for 90 minutes in front of thousands of passionate onlookers. — Don Riddell And Daniel Gallan, CNN, "Jurgen Klopp makes waves by welcoming surfer into Liverpool camp," 21 Aug. 2019 Bloom’s favorite subject: The human body freshly released from the grip of death, often flayed and purpling, flesh turned inside out. — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, "This Boston artist shunned the limelight. He deserves to be famous.," 1 Aug. 2019 Bodies are flayed open, ripped apart at the ribs, viscera spilling, hung like cattle at the butcher; sores and lesions bloom on skin. — Nina Maclaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, "Bodies in detail, Kipling in Vermont, and Shakespeare in the park," 18 July 2019 Gradually, more and more members of the community are flayed, and this season's Mind Flayer takes on an entirely different—and completely disgusting—form. — Amy Mackelden, Harper's BAZAAR, "Stranger Things 3 Features the Show's Worst Monster Yet," 4 July 2019 And Billy is recruiting more townspeople as hosts, all with the aim of building a creature that can take out Eleven once and for all, leaving it free to flay the minds of pretty much everyone else alive. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Flay your mind: Stranger Things S3 just might be the show’s best season yet," 15 July 2019 Kamala Harris’s unsparing sharpness and unsentimental willingness to flay Biden onstage only served to highlight that fact. — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, "Democratic Debate 2019: Kamala Harris Exposed the Biden Weaknesses That Trump Will Exploit," 28 June 2019 Senator Kamala Harris brought it up, in order to flay Joe Biden for his opposition to it as a young politician in Delaware in the early Seventies. — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 11 July 2019 Netflix After flayed Billy and Heather finish feeding Heather’s parents to the Mind Flayer, Billy takes some time off from terrorizing the people of Hawkins to report for duty at the pool. — Time, "Breaking Down What Happens to Billy in Stranger Things Season 3," 4 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'flay.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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