Flesh

Quick meaning: Flesh is a noun meaning The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

Meaning

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.

More Meanings

1. The skin of a human or animal.
2. (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
3. Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
4. The human body as a physical entity.
5. (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
6. (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
7. The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.

Example Sentences

Chicken is already the most popular meat in the US, and is projected to be the planet’s favourite flesh by 2020.

For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.

1929 January, Bassett Morgan (Grace Jones), Bimini, first published in Weird Tales, reprinted 1949, in Avon Fantasy Reader, Issue 10, But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh.

And the preaſt ſhall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his fleſh, and take awaye the aſſhes whiche the fire of the burntſacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them beſyde the alter, […]

Word Forms

• fleshes
• fleshing
• fleshed

Synonyms for flesh

Depending on context, synonyms include soma, shape, form, physique, build, frame.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bod, physique, anatomy, pulp, soma, form.

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