What is another word for Flayer?

Pronunciation: [flˈe͡ɪə] (IPA)

Flayer is a word that not many people use in their everyday vocabulary. However, it means the act of removing the skin or outer covering of something or someone. Some synonyms that are more commonly used include peel, strip, skin, and shave. Other synonyms that may be less familiar are excoriate, pare, decorticate, and dismember. These words all describe a similar action of removing a layer or covering from something or someone. Depending on the context of its use, flayer can often be replaced with any of these synonyms to convey the same meaning.

Usage examples for Flayer

He could imagine the thousands watching grimly while the Flayer used his knife.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
3. The Flayer of Marsyas.
"Paris As It Was and As It Is"
Francis W. Blagdon
Nor that the faculty should be mindful of the lawless, irresponsible boy, and not of the genius that developed on its own lines and was never conventionalized but always remained a sinner however brilliant, and a Flayer of good men unblessed with a saving sense of humor.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson

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