Flesh

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English

Noun

Flesh (uncountable)
  1. the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
  2. (archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
    • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
      I charge the that thou ete no fleysshe as longe as ye be in the Queste of Sankgreall, nother ye shall drynke no wyne [...].
  3. the human body as a physical entity.
  4. the skin of a human or animal.
  5. the soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
  6. a yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
    Flesh colour:   

Synonyms

Verb

Flesh (third-person singular simple present fleshes, present participle fleshing, simple past and past participle fleshed)

  1. To bury (a sword, for example) in flesh.
    • 1933: Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
      Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
  2. To put flesh on; to fatten.
  3. To add details.
    The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
  4. to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Adjectives for Flesh

mortifying; famished; fever-stricken; palatable; cumbrous; festering; quivering; lank unsavory; overroasted; flower-tinted; soft pink; sun-bronzed; ivory; pale; waxen bruised; shuddering; swollen; dusty; ex¬hausted; putrefying; carrion; miserable; half-cooked; pierced; mad; attractive; common; living; sweet; tender; transfigured dead; redundant; yielding; warm; lumpy scalded; mangled; tainted; wrinkled ample; muscular; decrepit; quaky; firm human; crawling; swooping; swelling; slippery; sensitive; blooming; decaying; rebellious; seraphic; gangrenous; overwearied quick; aching; adhering; mutinous; torn elaborate; dressed; sinful; avaricious.

Verbs for Flesh

accumulate—; chafe—; char—; crucify— denounce—; derive from—; flavor—; gain —; gather—; grind—; inject into—; market —; mutilate—; produce—; reduce—; waste.

Thesaurus

Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Leatherette, Leatheroid, agnate, alive, all that lives, anatomy, ancestry, animalism, animality, aspic, barbecue, beastliness, bestiality, biosphere, biota, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodiliness, bodily, body, boiled meat, bones, bouilli, brawn, brutality, brutishness, carcass, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, civet, clansman, clay, clod, coarseness, coat, cognate, coldness, collateral, collateral relative, color, concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality, corporeal, corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, corpus, cuticle, dermis, distaff side, distant relation, earthiness, ecosphere, embodiment, embody, enate, fallen humanity, fallen nature, fallen state, family, fell, fiber, figure, fill in, fill out, fleece, flesh and blood, fleshliness, flora and fauna, folks, forcemeat, form, frame, frigidity, fur, furring, game, generation of man, genus Homo, german, grossness, hachis, hash, hide, hominid, homo, hulk, human, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, imitation fur, imitation leather, impotence, in person, in the flesh, incorporate, integument, jacket, jerky, joint, jugged hare, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, lapsed state, le genre humain, leather, leather paper, libido, living, living matter, living nature, love, lovemaking, man, mankind, marriage, material body, materialism, materiality, materialness, meat, menue viande, mince, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, muscle, natural, near relation, next of kin, nonspirituality, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pemmican, people, person, personally, physical, physical body, physicality, physicalness, physique, plasm, posterity, postlapsarian state, pot roast, potency, race of man, rawhide, real, really, relations, relatives, rind, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, sensuality, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sheath, sib, sibling, skin, skins, soma, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, substantiality, substantiate, swinishness, sword side, tegument, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, tissue, torso, tribesman, trunk, unspirituality, uterine kin, vair, venison, viande, voluptuousness

Etymology

From Old English flǣsc, from Proto-Germanic *flaisk-, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ (“to tear, peel off”). Compare Old High German "fleisk" (German "Fleisch").

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

body tissue
animal tissue as food
human body entity
skin
edible part of fruit/vegetable
colour
The translations below need to be checked.

Verb

to put flesh on
To add details
to remove the flesh

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun or verb flesh

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