flesh

flesh is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
2. noun. Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
3. noun. The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
4. noun. The human eace; mankind; humanity.
5. noun. Human nature
6. noun. In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
7. noun. In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
8. noun. The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
9. noun. Kindred; stock; race.
10. noun. The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
11. transitive verb. To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
12. transitive verb. To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
13. transitive verb. To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
14. noun. alternative names for the body of a human being

    "Leonardo studied the human body"

    "he has a strong physique"

    Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, form, frame, physique, shape, soma

15. noun. the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
16. noun. a soft moist part of a fruit

    Synonyms: pulp

17. verb. remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

Synonyms

anatomy, bod, build, chassis, figure, form, frame, physique, shape, soma, pulp

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flesh:

shelf

Common word forms

fleshed, fleshen, flesher, fleshes, fleshly, fleshful, fleshing, fleshless, fleshment

Words from these letters

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