Flesh

Noun

 * 1) the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
 * 2)  Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
 * 3) * 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
 * I charge the that thou ete no fleysshe as longe as ye be in the Queste of Sankgreall, nother ye shall drynke no wyne [...].
 * 1) the human body as a physical entity.
 * 2) the skin of a human or animal.
 * 3) the soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
 * 4) a yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:body

Verb

 * 1) To bury (a sword, for example) in flesh.
 * 2) * 1933: Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
 * Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
 * 1) To put flesh on; to fatten.
 * 2) To add details.
 * The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
 * 1) to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Adjectives for Flesh
mortifying; famished; fever-stricken; palatable; cumbrous; festering; quivering; lank unsavory; overroasted; flower-tinted; soft pink; sun-bronzed; ivory; pale; waxen bruised; shuddering; swollen; dusty; ex¬hausted; putrefying; carrion; miserable; half-cooked; pierced; mad; attractive; common; living; sweet; tender; transfigured dead; redundant; yielding; warm; lumpy scalded;  mangled;   tainted;   wrinkled ample; muscular; decrepit; quaky; firm human; crawling; swooping; swelling; slippery; sensitive; blooming; decaying; rebellious; seraphic; gangrenous; overwearied quick; aching; adhering; mutinous; torn elaborate; dressed; sinful; avaricious.

Verbs for Flesh
accumulate—; chafe—; char—; crucify— denounce—; derive from—; flavor—; gain —; gather—; grind—; inject into—; market —; mutilate—; produce—; reduce—; waste.

Thesaurus
Adam, Hominidae, Homo sapiens, Leatherette, Leatheroid, agnate, alive, all that lives, anatomy, ancestry, animalism, animality, aspic, barbecue, beastliness, bestiality, biosphere, biota, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodiliness, bodily, body, boiled meat, bones, bouilli, brawn, brutality, brutishness, carcass, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, civet, clansman, clay, clod, coarseness, coat, cognate, coldness, collateral, collateral relative, color, concreteness, connections, consanguinean, corporality, corporeal, corporeality, corporealness, corporeity, corpus, cuticle, dermis, distaff side, distant relation, earthiness, ecosphere, embodiment, embody, enate, fallen humanity, fallen nature, fallen state, family, fell, fiber, figure, fill in, fill out, fleece, flesh and blood, fleshliness, flora and fauna, folks, forcemeat, form, frame, frigidity, fur, furring, game, generation of man, genus Homo, german, grossness, hachis, hash, hide, hominid, homo, hulk, human, human family, human nature, human race, human species, humanity, humankind, imitation fur, imitation leather, impotence, in person, in the flesh, incorporate, integument, jacket, jerky, joint, jugged hare, kin, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, lapsed state, le genre humain, leather, leather paper, libido, living, living matter, living nature, love, lovemaking, man, mankind, marriage, material body, materialism, materiality, materialness, meat, menue viande, mince, mortal flesh, mortality, mortals, muscle, natural, near relation, next of kin, nonspirituality, noosphere, organic matter, organic nature, organized matter, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pemmican, people, person, personally, physical, physical body, physicality, physicalness, physique, plasm, posterity, postlapsarian state, pot roast, potency, race of man, rawhide, real, really, relations, relatives, rind, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, sensuality, sex drive, sexiness, sexual instinct, sexual urge, sexualism, sexuality, sheath, sib, sibling, skin, skins, soma, spear kin, spear side, spindle kin, spindle side, stock, substantiality, substantiate, swinishness, sword side, tegument, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, tissue, torso, tribesman, trunk, unspirituality, uterine kin, vair, venison, viande, voluptuousness

Etymology
From flæsc:, from, from. Compare Old High German "fleisk" (German "Fleisch:").

Noun

 * Albanian: mish, tul
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: carn
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: σάρκα [ˈsarka], κρέας [ˈkre̞.as] [rare (means also "meat")]
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: karno
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: miesa, ķermenis
 * Lithuanian: kūnas
 * Navajo:
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: мягкая ткань, плоть f (poetic), мясо n coll.
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: మాంసం (maamsam)
 * Volapük: mid
 * Walloon: tchå
 * Welsh: cnawd


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: carn
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: chair
 * German:
 * Greek: σάρκα [ˈsarka], κρέας [ˈkre̞.as] (means also "meat")


 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Latvian: miesa
 * Pashto:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: σάρκα [ˈsarka]


 * Ido: korpo
 * Latvian: ķermenis
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil, craiceann
 * Swahili:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French: peau
 * German:


 * Greek: δέρμα [ˈderma']
 * Scottish Gaelic: craiceann
 * Swahili:
 * Volapük: skin


 * Czech:
 * Danish: kød, frugtkød
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: σάρκα [ˈsarka]


 * Ido: pulpo
 * Polish:
 * Russian: мякоть
 * Scottish Gaelic: feòil
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: గుజ్జు (gujju)


 * Catalan: carn
 * Danish: kødfarve
 * Dutch: mensenkleur
 * French: carnation, chair


 * German:
 * Greek: σαρκόχρουν [sarˈko̞xrun], σαρκόχρωμο [sarˈko̞xro̞ˌmo̞] , σαρκί [sarˈci] (colloquial), κρεατί [ˌkre̞.a.ˈti]  (colloquial)
 * Russian: телесный adj.


 * : گوشت (gusht) (1), پوست (pust) (2,4,5)

Verb

 * Danish: opfede
 * Dutch: vervetten
 * German:


 * Persian: پرواربندی (parvaarbandi)
 * Swahili:


 * German: ,


 * Swahili:


 * German:


 * Swahili: bambua

Derived terms

 * flesh and blood
 * flesh fly
 * flesh out
 * flesh side
 * flesh-wing
 * flesh wound


 * flesher
 * fleshing
 * fleshpot
 * fleshy
 * goose flesh
 * in the flesh


 * pound of flesh
 * press the flesh
 * proud flesh
 * way of all flesh

Anagrams

 * shelf