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unflesh

unflesh verb: to reduce to a skeleton.

Verb

unflesh (third-person singular simple present unfleshes, present participle unfleshing, simple past and past participle unfleshed)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to a skeleton.
    • Skeleton of unfleshed humanity.1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe
  2. (transitive) To remove or consume the fleshy part of.

Forms of unflesh

third-person singular presentunfleshes
present participleunfleshing
past participleunfleshed
pastunfleshed

Origin of unflesh

From un- + flesh.

Questions about unflesh

What does unflesh mean?
Unflesh means to reduce to a skeleton.
What part of speech is unflesh?
Unflesh is a verb.
What is the past tense of unflesh?
The past tense of unflesh is unfleshed.

Words near unflesh in the dictionary

  1. unfleeces
  2. unfleecing
  3. unfleecy
  4. unfleeing
  5. unfleeting
  6. unflesh
  7. unfleshed
  8. unfleshes
  9. unfleshing
  10. unfleshliness
  11. unfleshly

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