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Flay vs Flaw - What's the difference?

flay | flaw |

As verbs the difference between flay and flaw

is that flay is to cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening) while flaw is to add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.

As nouns the difference between flay and flaw

is that flay is a fright; a scare while flaw is a flake, fragment, or shiver.

flay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flayen, flaien, fleien, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (Yorkshire) * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
  • To frighten; scare; terrify.
  • To be fear-stricken.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fright; a scare.
  • Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
    • Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) flean from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • to strip skin off
  • to lash
    • Synonyms
    * (remove the skin of) fleece, flense, skin

    Anagrams

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    flaw

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) flawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A flake, fragment, or shiver.
  • (obsolete) A thin cake, as of ice.
  • A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
    • There is a flaw in that knife.
    That vase has a flaw .
  • * Shakespeare
    • This heart / Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws .
  • A defect, fault, or imperfection, especially one that is hidden.
  • * South
    • Has not this also its flaws and its dark side?
  • A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid.
    • a flaw in a will, in a deed, or in a statute
    Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * tragic flaw

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective.
  • To become imperfect or defective.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration.
  • * Milton
    • Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw .
  • * Tennyson
    • Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn.
  • A storm of short duration.
  • A sudden burst of noise and disorder; a tumult; uproar; a quarrel.
  • * Dryden
    • And deluges of armies from the town / Came pouring in; I heard the mighty flaw .

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