defleshing
English edit
Verb edit
defleshing
- present participle and gerund of deflesh
Noun edit
defleshing (countable and uncountable, plural defleshings)
- The act of removing the flesh.
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 171:
- In extreme circumstances they would, however, eat a little plant matter and fungus, as well as each other: twelve skeletons from El Sidrón Cave in Spain, bearing marks of death blows and defleshing, offering clear evidence of cannibalism.