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4 lettersPronunciation /fleɪ/Part of speech verbSorted aflyStarts with FEnds with Y0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. strip the skin off

Word origin

From Middle English flayen, flaien, fleien, from Old English *flīeġan ("to cause to fly, put to flight, frighten"; found only in compounds: āflīeġan), from Proto-Germanic *flaugijaną (“to let fly, cause to fly”), causative of Proto-Germanic *fleuganą (“to fly”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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