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flaysverbpresent tense third-person singular of flay to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failingsher husband flayed her constantly for her incessant shopping bastes, bawls out, berates, calls down, castigates, chastises, chews out, dresses down, hammers, jaws, keelhauls, lambastes(or lambasts), lectures, rags, rails (at or against), rants (at), rates, reams (out), rebukes, reprimands, reproaches, scolds, scores, tongue-lashes, upbraids admonishes, chides, remonstrates (with), reprovesabuses, assails, attacks, bad-mouths, blames, blasts, censures, condemns, criticizes, crucifies, denounces, disses(slang), excoriates, faults, harangues, knocks, laces (into), lashes, pans, reprehends, reviles, scourges, slams, vituperatesbelittles, disparages, mocks, puts downridicules, scoffs, scorns lays into, reads the riot act (to), takes to task approves, endorses(also indorses), sanctionsextols(also extolls), lauds, praises to remove the natural covering offlayed their kill right there in the forest, taking both the meat and the skin home barks, hulls, husks, peels, shells, shucks, skins bares, denudes, exposes, scales, stripspares |