Definitions for fleshed

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IPA: /flɛʃt/

Fleshed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in fleshed (deefhls).

Definitions for fleshed

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:

adjective

1. having flesh, especially of a specified type (usually used in combination):

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 fleshed

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at flesh, -ed³

Examples for fleshed

But these are some sharply drawn stories, fleshed out with three-dimensional characters, withering satire, and genuine pathos.

The liquor is then applied to the flesh-side of the fleshed skins by means of a brush, making sure to touch all parts of the pelt.

Halldor came at his back and fleshed Whitting in his hough-sinews.

That maiden-sword of the world was fleshed to save a maiden from the jaws of a monster.

Some dying man on the floor had fleshed his dagger with his last effort.

You have fleshed your maiden sword in the bodies of two villains.

But as he spoke he fleshed his teeth against the bone as a dog would have done.

They all howled fearfully, and they would fain have fleshed their teeth in the pianist.

I perceive the Abbey lands have fleshed you, and set your teeth on edge, to ask also those colleges.

It was like the steel of a blade that had never been fleshed.