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flenses

flenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flense.

Meaning of flense

Verb

flense (third-person singular simple present flenses, present participle flensing, simple past and past participle flensed)

  1. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
    • In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 198
    Synonyms:
    flay, fleece, skin

Questions about flenses

What is flenses the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Flenses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of flense.

Words near flenses in the dictionary

  1. Flensburg
  2. flense
  3. flensed
  4. flenser
  5. flensers
  6. flenses
  7. flensing
  8. flensings
  9. Fleras
  10. flerd
  11. flerds

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