flesh

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flesh [flesh fleshes fleshed fleshing] noun, verb BrE [fleʃ] NAmE [fleʃ]
noun
1. uncountable the soft substance between the skin and bones of animal or human bodies
• The trap had cut deeply into the rabbit's flesh.
• Tigers are flesh-eating animals.
•the smell of rotting flesh
2. uncountable the skin of the human body
•His fingers closed around the soft flesh of her arm.
•flesh-coloured (= a light brownish pink colour)
3. uncountable the soft part of fruit and vegetables, especially when it is eaten
•the sweet flesh of a mango
4. the fleshsingular (literary)the human body when considering its physical and sexual needs, rather than the mind or soul
•the pleasures/sins of the flesh
more at your pound of flesh at ↑pound _n., press the flesh at ↑press _v., the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak at ↑spirit _n., a thorn in sb's flesh/side at ↑thorn, go the way of all flesh at ↑way _n.

Word Origin:
Old English flǣsc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlees and German Fleisch.

Example Bank:
•African hunting dogs will tear at the flesh of their victim until it is weak.
•Babies are born not just as bundles of flesh and bone but with already distinctive personalities.
•Cook the duck until the juices run pale yellow when the flesh is pierced.
•Cut the melon in half and scoop out the flesh.
•Cut the melon in half, remove the seeds and scoop out the flesh.
•Falcons usually strip the flesh off their prey.
•His moral sermons always denounced the lusts of the flesh.
•His shirt was too small for him and cut into the tender flesh at his armpit.
•In the Christian tradition, God is made flesh.
•In the centre of the painting there is a woman painted in blues, reds and flesh tones.
•My flesh tingled as I got out of the ice cold pool.
•Pare the mangoes and cut the flesh away from the stone.
•Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey.
•She wasn't a ghost. She was flesh and blood.
•The chain cut into his tender flesh.
•The injury was only a flesh wound and would heal in ten days or so.
•The knife cut through flesh and bone.
•The scary story made his flesh creep.
•The story made his flesh creep= made him feel afraid.
•The tights come in various flesh tones.
•The weapon tore into his flesh.
•Thousands of fans gathered to see the band in the flesh.
•a man of flesh and blood= not a ghost
Idioms: ↑flesh and blood ▪ ↑in the flesh ▪ ↑make your flesh creep ▪ ↑put flesh on something ▪ ↑your flesh and blood
Derived: ↑flesh something out
 
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Word Origin:
Old English flǣsc, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlees and German Fleisch.