flesh
/flɛʃ/ verb C2- To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
- To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
- To glut.
- To put flesh on; to fatten.
- To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
He/she/it fleshes · Past fleshed · Past participle fleshed · -ing form fleshing
Verb forms
- Base form
- flesh
- He/she/it
- fleshes
- Past
- fleshed
- Past participle
- fleshed
- -ing form
- fleshing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Then he was battered to and fro as a rat is shaken by a dog--to and fro on the floor, up and down, and around in great circles, but his eyes were red and he held on as the body cart-whipped over the floor, upsetting the tin dipper and the soap dish and the flesh brush, and banged against the tin side of the bath.
Peter Blewett only by sight as a small, shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.
It was asking too much of flesh and blood to expect her to tell before the whole school that she had been called “carrots.” Gilbert it was who spoke up stoutly.
But flesh and blood don’t come under the head of arithmetic and that’s where Marilla Cuthbert makes her mistake.
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