disflesh

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

disflesh (third-person singular simple present disfleshes, present participle disfleshing, simple past and past participle disfleshed)

(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
- 1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:
  […] nor the fat man disflesh himself
(obsolete, transitive) To disembody.

References edit

“disflesh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.