Definitions for flesh

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IPA: /flɛʃ/

Flesh is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in flesh (efhls).

Definitions for flesh

noun

1. the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
2. muscular and fatty tissue.
3. this substance or tissue in animals, viewed as an article of food, usually excluding fish and sometimes fowl; meat.
4. fatness; weight.
5. the body, especially as distinguished from the spirit or soul:
6. the physical or animal nature of humankind as distinguished from its moral or spiritual nature:
7. humankind.
8. living creatures generally.
9. a person's family or relatives.
10. Botany. the soft, pulpy portion of a fruit, vegetable, etc., as distinguished from the core, skin, shell, etc.
11. the surface of the human body; skin:
12. (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) flesh color.

Idioms

1. in the flesh, present and alive before one's eyes; in person:
2. pound of flesh, something that strict justice demands is due, but can only be paid with great loss or suffering to the payer.
3. press the flesh, Informal. to shake hands, as with voters while campaigning:

Verb phrases

1. flesh out, to gain weight: to add details to or make more complete:

verb (used with object)

1. to plunge (a weapon) into the flesh.
2. Hunting. to feed (a hound or hawk) with flesh in order to make it more eager for the chase. Compare blood (def 16).
3. to incite and accustom (persons) to bloodshed or battle by an initial experience.
4. to inflame the ardor or passions of by a foretaste.
5. to overlay or cover (a skeleton or skeletal frame) with flesh or with a fleshlike substance.
6. to give dimension, substance, or reality to (often followed by out):
7. to remove adhering flesh from (hides), in leather manufacture.
8. Archaic. to satiate with flesh or fleshly enjoyments; surfeit; glut.

Origin of flesh

before 900; Middle English flesc, Old English flǣsc; cognate with Old Frisian flēsk, Old High German fleisk (German Fleisch), Old Norse flesk bacon

Examples for flesh

The fingers thrust at his throat—he seemed to be tearing his own flesh.

flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.

He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.

There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.

You don't think I would leave my own flesh and blood in the cellar!

His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.

The fingers should be used to separate the flesh at this place.

Oh, strong, strong are the ties of flesh, and hard it is to subdue the spirit!

Your flesh has never been made to creep: but the cockles of your heart have been warmed.