FLESH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flesh mean? 

• FLESH (noun)
  The noun FLESH has 3 senses:

1. the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

2. alternative names for the body of a human being

3. a soft moist part of a fruit

  Familiarity information: FLESH used as a noun is uncommon.

• FLESH (verb)
  The verb FLESH has 1 sense:

1. remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

  Familiarity information: FLESH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLESH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("flesh" is a kind of...):

animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)

Derivation:

fleshy (of or relating to or resembling flesh)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Alternative names for the body of a human being

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

anatomy; bod; build; chassis; figure; flesh; form; frame; human body; material body; physical body; physique; shape; soma

Context example:

the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

Hypernyms ("flesh" is a kind of...):

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flesh"):

person (a human body (usually including the clothing))

juvenile body (the body of a young person)

adult body (the body of an adult human being)

male body (the body of a male human being)

female body (the body of a female human being)

Holonyms ("flesh" is a part of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A soft moist part of a fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flesh; pulp

Hypernyms ("flesh" is a kind of...):

plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)

Meronyms (substance of "flesh"):

parenchyma (the primary tissue of higher plants composed of thin-walled cells that remain capable of cell division even when mature; constitutes the greater part of leaves, roots, the pulp of fruits, and the pith of stems)

• FLESH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they flesh    ... he / she / it fleshes   
Past simple: fleshed   
Past participle: fleshed   
-ing form: fleshing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "flesh" is one way to...):

get rid of; remove (dispose of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

His reason was unseated by the blind yearning of the flesh to exist and move, at all hazards to move, to continue to move, for movement was the expression of its existence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I've got the same flesh on my bones, the same ten fingers and toes. I am the same.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Leaving the pails standing in the trail, he walked up and down, rapidly, to keep from freezing, for the frost bit into the flesh like fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I observed the young animal’s flesh to smell very rank, and the stink was somewhat between a weasel and a fox, but much more disagreeable.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Your flesh is not afraid. You are not afraid.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Wherever his fangs struck for the softer flesh, they were countered by the fangs of Spitz.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This is a rum start, and I can't name the voice, but it's someone skylarking—someone that's flesh and blood, and you may lay to that.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)