unflesh
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
unflesh (third-person singular simple present unfleshes, present participle unfleshing, simple past and past participle unfleshed)
- (transitive) To strip of flesh.
- To reduce to a skeleton.
- 1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe:
- Skeleton of unfleshed humanity.
- To remove or consume the fleshy part of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- To reduce to a skeleton.
References edit
- “unflesh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.