flesh
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1.0
- noun
- /flɛʃ/
:
carne
- During the anatomy class, we studied the flesh and muscles of various animals.
- flesh and blood
- human flesh
- flesh and bone
I've tried, but I'm just flesh, blood yet to spill.
- I've tried, but I'm just flesh, blood yet to spill.
- It's it's like some sort of flesh on my rectum.
- We eat his, his flesh to cleanse ourselves.
- He is a giant Dome of flesh and muscles.
- So my first couple of winters here, all my flesh split.
- The petrol I sell burns hot enough to see a flesh from bone in seconds.
- You could purchase literal flesh for less than that of ATV, OK.
- He says that just as with the flesh, A swelling results from a blow.
- So they would have appeared with muscles and flesh and so on very much like we do.
Examples
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The doctor explained that the wound exposed the flesh beneath the skin.
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He is a giant Dome of flesh and muscles.
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Now you see all this flesh under here.
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Your own flesh and blood.
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A person who addresses himself to other men of flesh and bone, like himself.
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We are mere mortals of flesh and blood.
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It is a creature of flesh and blood like any other.
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The bullet tore the flesh and fur away from the top of his skull.
Fiction book (1990) -
The body is like an onion, and I watch the flesh peel off, layer by layer, layer by layer.
Academic text (2008) -
After the accident, he had several cuts that revealed the flesh on his arm.
Idioms
- Literature
2
8.4
To join fully as a married couple, sharing their bodies and lives
Compounds
13
3.7
A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones
- Specialized
Extra soft raised tissue that grows around a cut and keeps the cut from closing
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flesh comes from an old German word meaning 'meat' (like German Fleisch). That is why it names the soft part of a person or animal — the 'meat' between skin and bones.