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English
Etymology
From 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.
- To remove or consume the fleshy part of. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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