Flense

Quick meaning: Flense is a verb meaning To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

Meaning

To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.

Example Sentences

His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed.

In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.

It engulfed screaming soldiers who disappeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them.

For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her.

Word Forms

• flenses
• flensing
• flensed
• flench

Synonyms for flense

Depending on context, synonyms include flay, fleece, skin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include flinch, flench, flay, deflesh, unflesh, beflay.

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