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unflesh

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English

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ flesh.

Verb

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unflesh (third-person singular simple present unfleshes, present participle unfleshing, simple past and past participle unfleshed)

  1. (transitive) To strip of flesh.
    1. To reduce to a skeleton.
      • 1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe:
        Skeleton of unfleshed humanity.
    2. To remove or consume the fleshy part of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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