| 单词 | to flay alive |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto flay alive (or †quick) a. with object a person: often in to flay alive (or †quick). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > flay to flay alive (or quick)a800 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of skin flaya800 beflaya1000 hilda1000 scorchc1430 escorse1546 skin1566 case1575 uncase1575 unskin1598 blank?c1600 excoriate1614 deglubate1623 hide1757 flipe1892 a800 Corpus Gloss. 659 Deglobere, flean. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3199 Oðer he heom lette quic flan [c1300 Otho flean]. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 612 He shal him hangen, or quik flo. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. iii Out of his skynne he hath him stript and flawe. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iii. 40 He dide hym to be flain all quyk. 1555 R. Eden Briefe Descr. Moscouia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 261v Whom the Barbarians..fleyde alyue and slewe. 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour ii. i. 9 No doubt, they would have flead me alive. 1709 M. Prior Paulo Purganti They should be hang'd or starv'd, or flead. 1800 Sporting Mag. 15 51 You must flea a Muscovite to make him feel. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. v. 158 Your friend..whom if I catch, I flay alive. < as lemmas |
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