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disflesh

disflesh verb: to reduce the flesh or obesity of.

Verb

disflesh (third-person singular simple present disfleshes, present participle disfleshing, simple past and past participle disfleshed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
    • […]nor the fat man disflesh himself1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To disembody.

Forms of disflesh

third-person singular presentdisfleshes
present participledisfleshing
past participledisfleshed
pastdisfleshed

Origin of disflesh

From dis- + flesh.

Questions about disflesh

What does disflesh mean?
Disflesh means to reduce the flesh or obesity of.
What part of speech is disflesh?
Disflesh is a verb.
What is the past tense of disflesh?
The past tense of disflesh is disfleshed.

Words near disflesh in the dictionary

  1. disflavors
  2. disflavour
  3. disflavoured
  4. disflavouring
  5. disflavours
  6. disflesh
  7. disfleshed
  8. disfleshes
  9. disfleshing
  10. disfluencies
  11. disfluency

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