Past tense of flesh
regular verb
The past tense of flesh is fleshed. The past participle is also fleshed.
Forms of flesh
| Base form (V1) | flesh /flɛʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fleshed /flɛʃt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | fleshed /flɛʃt/ |
| Present participle | fleshing /ˈflɛʃɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | fleshes /ˈflɛʃɪz/ |
Fleshed in a sentence
- But one day, he will want a fleshed out, vibrant, real life woman.2001, Adam Watson, Frighten the Horses and Other Plays, page 40. From the entry cyberwhore
- The characters are generated from lists of traits, they’re projections controlled by whoever is game-mistress of the bismek and fleshed out by the household AI.1994 April, Maureen F. McHugh, “Nekropolis”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 18, numbers 4 and 5 (214 and 215 overall), New York…. From the entry game-mistress
Meaning of flesh
- noun The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
- noun The skin of a human or animal.
- noun Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Questions about the past tense of flesh
- What is the past tense of flesh?
- The past tense of flesh is fleshed.
- What is the past participle of flesh?
- The past participle of flesh is fleshed.
- Is flesh a regular or irregular verb?
- Flesh is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flesh (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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