- flay
- v1. strip, strip off, excoriate, peel, Pathol. desquamate, pare, skin, Inf. skin alive, scalp, bark, husk, shuck, shell, decorticate; shave, shear, depilate, tonsure; erode, rub off, wear away, eat away.2. criticize, attack, light into, Inf. lace into, Inf. pan, Inf. slam, shoot down, Sl. blast, Sl. let [s.o.] have it right between the eyes; cavil, carp, find fault, Inf. nit-pick, pick apart, pick to pieces, Sl. cut up or to pieces; get on [s.o.'s] back, Inf. jump on, Sl. get on [s.o.'s] case; castigate, fustigate, berate, tongue-lash.3. fleece, swindle, defraud, mulct, shark, cheat, Inf. flimflam, rook, bilk, Inf. welsh, Inf. do out of, Inf. gyp, Inf. bunko, Inf. diddle, Inf. take, Inf. take [s.o.] for a ride, Sl. clip.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.