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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)

  1. 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
  2. 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 presentfleshifies
present participlefleshifying
past participlefleshified
pastfleshified

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.

Words near fleshify in the dictionary

  1. fleshier
  2. fleshies
  3. fleshiest
  4. fleshified
  5. fleshifies
  6. fleshify
  7. fleshifying
  8. fleshily
  9. fleshiness
  10. fleshinesses
  11. fleshing

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