Word Meanings - UNFLESH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.

Related words: (words related to UNFLESH)

• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• SKELETON
  The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. Note: The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. Note: In a wider sense, the skeleton includes the whole connective-
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• HUMANITY
  The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language, rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. Note: The cultivation of the languages, literature, history, and archæology of Greece and Rome, were very commonly called literæ
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• FLESHLY
  1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton.
• FLESHLESS
  Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• REDUCER
  One who, or that which, reduces.
• FLESHLING
  A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser.
• UNFLESHLY
  Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.
• FLESHMONGER
  One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak.
• FLESHED
  1. Corpulent; fat; having flesh. 2. Glutted; satiated; initiated. Fleshed with slaughter. Dryden.
• UNFLESH
  To deprive of flesh; to reduce a skeleton. "Unfleshed humanity." Wordsworth.
• SKELETONIZER
  Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• SCLEROSKELETON
  That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• DERMOSKELETON
  See EXOSKELETON
• ENFLESH
  To clothe with flesh. Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
• INFLESH
  To incarnate.