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unfleshing

unfleshing is the present participle and gerund of unflesh.

Meaning of unflesh

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.

Questions about unfleshing

What is unfleshing the present participle and gerund of?
Unfleshing is the present participle and gerund of unflesh.

Words near unfleshing in the dictionary

  1. unfleeing
  2. unfleeting
  3. unflesh
  4. unfleshed
  5. unfleshes
  6. unfleshing
  7. unfleshliness
  8. unfleshly
  9. unfleshy
  10. unfletched
  11. unflex

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfleshing (page history and authors); unflesh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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