unflesh
English
Etymology
un- + flesh
Verb
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.
- 1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unflesh in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)