"skin someone alive" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: skins someone alive [present, singular, third-person], skinning someone alive [participle, present], skinned someone alive [participle, past], skinned someone alive [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} skin someone alive (third-person singular simple present skins someone alive, present participle skinning someone alive, simple past and past participle skinned someone alive)
  1. (colloquial) To castigate someone severely. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: flay someone alive
    Sense id: en-skin_someone_alive-en-verb-AZO5Zfsf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
     
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        "To castigate someone severely."
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        "(colloquial) To castigate someone severely."
      ],
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