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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Flay"

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Word	Definition
excoriateverb	(transitive, figuratively) To strongly condemn or criticize.
beflayverb	(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To flay; strip; peel.
scare offverb	(transitive) To deter.
beflakeverb	(transitive) To deck or cover with or as with flakes.
beflyverb	(transitive, obsolete) To fly about; fly from; shun; escape.
flinchverb	(intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe; to blench.
fleeverb	(intransitive) To run away; to escape.
drivenoun	Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
flemeverb	(obsolete) To drive away, chase off; to banish.
affraynoun	The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
flushnoun	A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
throw offverb	(idiomatic) To confuse; especially, to lose a pursuer.
fleecenoun	(uncountable) Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal
slayverb	(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
fling outverb	(transitive) To throw out, throw away.
defleeceverb	To remove the fleece from.
flenchnoun	Alternative form of flense. [To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.]
fraynoun	(countable) A noisy commotion, especially resulting from fighting; a brawl, a fight; also, a loud quarrel.
fordriveverb	(transitive, UK dialectal) To drive away; expel.
befleeverb	(transitive, obsolete) To flee from; flee; avoid; shun.