flesh
肉体,肉身,肉体的,肉质
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Definitions
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- : the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- : muscular and fatty tissue.
- : this substance or tissue in animals, viewed as an article of food, usually excluding fish and sometimes fowl; meat.
- : fatness; weight.
- : the body, especially as distinguished from the spirit or soul: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
- : the physical or animal nature of humankind as distinguished from its moral or spiritual nature: the needs of the flesh.
- : humankind.
- : living creatures generally.
- : a person's family or relatives.
- : Botany. the soft, pulpy portion of a fruit, vegetable, etc., as distinguished from the core, skin, shell, etc.
- : the surface of the human body; skin: A person with tender flesh should not expose it to direct sunlight.
- : flesh color.
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- : to plunge into the flesh.
- : Hunting. to feed with flesh in order to make it more eager for the chase.Compare blood.
- : to incite and accustom to bloodshed or battle by an initial experience.
- : to inflame the ardor or passions of by a foretaste.
- : to overlay or cover with flesh or with a fleshlike substance.
- : to give dimension, substance, or reality to: The playwright wrote pretty good characters, but the actors really fleshed them out.
- : to remove adhering flesh from, in leather manufacture.
- : Archaic. to satiate with flesh or fleshly enjoyments; surfeit; glut.
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- : flesh out, to gain weight: He realized to his dismay that he had fleshed out during the months of forced inactivity. to add details to or make more complete: She fleshed out her proposal considerably before presenting it to the committee for action.
Phrases
- flesh and blood
- flesh out
- go the way of all flesh
- in person (the flesh)
- make one's flesh creep
- neither fish nor fowl (flesh)
- pound of flesh
- press the flesh
- spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
- thorn in one's flesh
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
In certain species, a male anglerfish will latch onto his chosen female with a sexy bite, then release digestive enzymes to melt their flesh together.
That predator’s active ocean cruising generates enough body heat to keep it toastier than surrounding seawater, an effort that burns through the equivalent of about six pounds of flesh a day.
Others might have thick, spongy flesh that can store water for long periods of time.
You can register in the flesh at your state or local election office.
The collaboration will next flesh out the bounce itself — a more complex stage that requires novel interactions to push everything apart again.
There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.
It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.
His flesh is sagging a bit, but he is still trim and looks lean, sinewy and tough.
He carried around a hundred pounds too many most of his life, a great buffer of flesh between himself and the world.
It is full of poetic feeling, and the flesh tints are unusually natural.
Such things happen to all flesh, from man even to beast, and upon sinners are sevenfold more.
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit.
In fact, on the palm a small drop of blood showed distinctly against the firm, pink flesh.
And as the fat taken away from the flesh, so was David chosen from among the children of Israel.