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flay

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of flay

1 to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings

her husband flayed her constantly for her incessant shopping

Synonyms of flay

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

Words Related to flay

admonish, chide, remonstrate (with), reprove

abuse, assail, attack, bad-mouth, blame, blast, censure, condemn, criticize, crucify, denounce, dis (also diss) [slang], excoriate, fault, harangue, knock, lace (into), lash, pan, reprehend, revile, scourge, slam, vituperate

belittle, disparage, mock, put down

ridicule, scoff, scorn

Phrases Synonymous with flay

lay into, read the riot act (to), take to task

Near Antonyms of flay

approve, endorse (also indorse), sanction

extol (also extoll), laud, praise

2 to remove the natural covering of

flayed their kill right there in the forest, taking both the meat and the skin home

Synonyms of flay

bark, hull, husk, peel, shell, shuck, skin

Words Related to flay

bare, denude, expose, scale, strip

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