Cut and Flay

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Cut

Cut verb - To penetrate with a sharp edge (as a knife).
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Flay and cut are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Flay" instead a verb "Cut".
Nearby Words: cutting, cutter, cutout

Flay

Flay verb - To criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings.
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Cut and flay are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cut" instead a verb "Flay".

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people cut people flay people
flesh cut flesh flay flesh
someone cut someone flay someone
opponent cut opponent flay opponent
Other words: enemies.

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  • The highlight of the televised ceremony comes when the three dignitaries — identified only as the Poet, the Educator, and the Scientist — receiving honorary degrees are dragged up a temporary pyramid on stage and restrained while two university functionaries cut out their hearts and flay them.
    Source: Cruel And Unusual Death / Literature
  • Reagan: "Well, in Capitalist Hell, first we flay all the flesh off your bones with our whips, then we boil you in oil for a while, and finally we cut you to pieces with our knives and scatter you all over the room."
    Source: Russian Humour
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