unskinv.
transitive. To divest of skin; to flay. Also figurative.
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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
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Discotennare, to flea, to vnskin.
a1652 R. Brome New Acad. iv. ii. 81 in Five New Playes (1659) I'le..no only unmask, but unskin her face too.
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxix. 278 Flaying and unskinning themselves as it were of reasons robe.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 20 And our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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v.1598- give the boot or the order of the boot
- give the bothered ear
- give the breast
- give the bucket to
- give the business
- give the butt
- give the case
- give the chuck
- give the cold shoulder
- give the day
- give the day to
- give the devil his due
- give the dingbats
- give the dor
- give the double
- give the double o
- give the double-cross
- give the doublecross
- give the dummy
- give the dunt
- give the démenti to
- give the elbow
- give the enemy sea-room
- give the enemy searoom
- give the eucharist