fleshify
fleshify verb: to make or become flesh; to incarnate.
Verb
fleshify (third-person singular simple present fleshifies, present participle fleshifying, simple past and past participle fleshified)
- To make or become flesh; to incarnate.
- Now Shakspeare must have known that the spirit of Artemus, when fleshified as Ward, would produce a good fellow, or he would not have done it.1870, Edward Peron Hingston, The Genial Showman, page 93
- He is loved not so much because he is pre-eminently a poet, though that he is so is the main fact about him, but because in his best-known poems there is displayed the humour and good sense of his countrymen, touched with ecstasy ; poetical rapture fleshified, or rather good solid bone and muscle...1912, Adolphus Alfred Jack, Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry, page 73
- To fatten; to swell; to grow fleshy.
- A vascular stem will be seen, and at the top of it a whorl of fleshified leaves all enclosed within the tubercle.1882, The Garden - Volume 22, page 437
- The galls called Devonshire galls, which grow in great numbers sometimes on the buds of oaks and some other trees, are simply fleshified buds; the leaves, instead of spreading out into a thin palm, become inspissated with the juices of the tree, and are thus agglomerated into a globular woody mass...1893, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 19, page 65
Forms of fleshify
| third-person singular present | fleshifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | fleshifying |
| past participle | fleshified |
| past | fleshified |
Origin of fleshify
From flesh + -ify.
Questions about fleshify
- What does fleshify mean?
- Fleshify means to make or become flesh; to incarnate.
- What part of speech is fleshify?
- Fleshify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of fleshify?
- The past tense of fleshify is fleshified.
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