Word.ws English Dictionary

disfleshing

disfleshing is the present participle and gerund of disflesh.

Meaning of disflesh

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.

Questions about disfleshing

What is disfleshing the present participle and gerund of?
Disfleshing is the present participle and gerund of disflesh.

Words near disfleshing in the dictionary

  1. disflavouring
  2. disflavours
  3. disflesh
  4. disfleshed
  5. disfleshes
  6. disfleshing
  7. disfluencies
  8. disfluency
  9. disfluent
  10. disfluently
  11. disfoci

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: disfleshing (page history and authors); disflesh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “disfleshing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/disfleshing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.