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enflesh

enflesh verb: to envelop or supply with flesh.

Verb

enflesh (third-person singular simple present enfleshes, present participle enfleshing, simple past and past participle enfleshed)

  1. (transitive) To envelop or supply with flesh.
    • Vices which are […] enfleshed in him.1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC
    • Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936

Forms of enflesh

third-person singular presentenfleshes
present participleenfleshing
past participleenfleshed
pastenfleshed

Origin of enflesh

From en- + flesh.

Words formed from enflesh

Questions about enflesh

What does enflesh mean?
Enflesh means to envelop or supply with flesh.
What part of speech is enflesh?
Enflesh is a verb.
What is the past tense of enflesh?
The past tense of enflesh is enfleshed.

Words near enflesh in the dictionary

  1. enflamed
  2. enflamedst
  3. enflames
  4. enflaming
  5. enflammable
  6. enflesh
  7. enfleshed
  8. enfleshes
  9. enfleshing
  10. enfleshment
  11. enfleurage

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