💪 Soft body tissue 🧍 Physical body 🍑 Soft part of fruit 📝 To add details 🔪 To remove tissue

to flesh

2 9.9

Remove the soft meat from an animal skin before making leather

verb
/flɛʃ/

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Seen what bullets do to flesh?

Examples

The craftsmen learned how to flesh hides to ensure the quality of their leather products.
To prepare the animal hide, the workers had to flesh it carefully to remove all the adhering tissues.
After skinning the deer, they began to flesh the hide before treating it for leather.

Idioms

in the flesh

34 4.2

Seeing someone face to face rather than in a photo or on TV

pound of flesh

Informal

8 9.9

A demand for unfair payment or punishment

to become one flesh

Literature

2 8.4

To join fully as a married couple, sharing their bodies and lives

the way of all flesh

Literature

1 9.2

The death that comes to everyone

to go the way of all flesh

Archaic

1 9.7

To stop living as a natural part of life

thorn in the flesh

Informal

1 7.0

Something that keeps causing you trouble or worry

to flesh a sword

Archaic

9.9

To use a sword in battle for the first time

to pay one's pound of flesh

Literature

9.9

Suffer a heavy cost to meet an unfair demand

Phrasal Verbs

to flesh out

15 4.0

To add more details to an idea, plan, or argument

to flesh out

1 6.2

To become rounder and fuller, usually by gaining weight

Compounds

flesh wound

13 3.7

A wound that only affects the skin and soft parts of the body, not organs or bones

flesh-eating

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5 7.5

An infection that quickly destroys body tissue

one flesh

Literature

3 8.6

Two people joined in marriage who share life and act as one

flesh-colored

3 4.2

A pale pink or light brown color like human skin

flesh-eating

1 6.1

An animal that eats the meat of other animals

flesh fly

Specialized

9.5

A fly whose young eat the flesh of dead or living animals

proud flesh

Specialized

9.9

Extra soft raised tissue that grows around a cut and keeps the cut from closing

Surface Forms

flesh infinitive

fleshed past

fleshed past participle

fleshing present participle

fleshes third person singular

Etymology

Flesh as a verb comes from the noun flesh ('meat') and means to remove that soft 'meat' from an animal skin before making leather.