flay

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To strip off the skin or outer covering of.
• transitive verb To strip of money or goods; fleece.
• transitive verb To whip or lash.
• transitive verb To assail with stinging criticism; excoriate.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To skin; strip off the skin of: as, to flay an ox.
• To strip off, in a general sense.
• To cause to fly; put to flight.
• To frighten.
• To be fear-struck.
• noun Fright; fear.
• noun A kick; a random blow; a fit of ill humor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb to strip skin off
• verb to lash
• verb transitive, Northern England, Scotland To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
• verb transitive, Northern England, Scotland To frighten; scare; terrify.
• verb intransitive, Northern England, Scotland To be fear-stricken.
• noun Northern England, Scotland A fright; a scare.
• noun Northern England, Scotland Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.

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• verb strip the skin off