flesh
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3.5
- noun
- /flɛʃ/
- Literature
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carne
- Jesus is God's son and God in the flesh this Christmas story.
- flesh and blood
- human flesh
- one flesh
But I saw what freedom looked like in flesh form through you.
- But I saw what freedom looked like in flesh form through you.
- Don't humans long for flesh to flesh true community?
- Sometimes you need to force your flesh to listen.
- And that soul is the integrator between your flesh and your spirit.
- It is burning brighter because it says look beyond the flesh to find the truth.
- Also the literal belief that it's Jesus's blood and Jesus's flesh that you're eating.
- Come on, we're talking about text that has been remixed by flesh and blood human beings.
- They are fundamentally preoccupied with matters of the flesh, of the body.
- Because regardless of what our flesh looks like, our bones are pretty much the same.
- I'm horses with wings, Jelly Jubilee in the flesh.
- His eyes are well, you wrestle not with flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
- You know, they don't renounce the pleasures of life, of the flesh and so forth.
- Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life.
- For what it's worth, the self will settle wholly on the flesh.
- Not as someone who is the in is God in the flesh.
- And the masks are taken off, and the flesh returns to wholeness.
- Some dreadful emotion never made for flesh and blood to know.
- This is the camera in the flesh, in my flesh, on my flesh.
- That's not how you talk about your own flesh and blood.
Examples
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Many people believe that the body is just a vessel for the spirit and that true identity lies beyond the flesh.
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I'm flesh and blood.
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Your own flesh and blood.
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It's only flesh and blood.
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There was a limit beyond which flesh and blood could not be made to go.
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I wake up every morning in this flesh.
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Because regardless of what our flesh looks like, our bones are pretty much the same.
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I'm so happy to have you here in the flesh.
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That's not how you talk about your own flesh and blood.
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She focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle, emphasizing the importance of caring for the flesh as well as the mind.
Synonyms
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1.0
The parts of a person, like bones, muscles and organs
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9.9
The human body in old writing, usually a dead body
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2.8
The parts of a person you can touch, not their mind or spirit
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8.8
The body of a person or animal seen as separate from the mind and reproductive cells
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3.4
A person or animal that is not dead
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5.0
The physical part of a person with skin, bones, and organs, not the mind or spirit
Antonyms
Idioms
- Literature
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8.4
To join fully as a married couple, sharing their bodies and lives
Compounds
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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 originally meant 'meat', so when people talk about 'flesh' versus 'spirit' they mean the physical body, the 'meat' side of a person in contrast to the soul.