flesh

IPA: fɫˈɛʃ

The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
The skin of a human or animal.
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
8 May 2018, Raj Patel, Jason W Moore, “How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era”, in The Guardian:
The human body as a physical entity.
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.

(transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
(transitive) To glut.
(transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.

Examples of "flesh" in Sentences

Scrape the leftover pumpkin flesh from the skins, and remove the burnt, papery skins from the onions.
And perhaps if I substitute the word "flesh" for "meat" on a regular basis, I will become a vegetarian!
"Tom Brady & Janet" Bobby Moynihan, Channing Tatum, Jay Pharoah The phrase "flesh cube" almost got this into "The Good" all by itself.
The word flesh made Eliza aware of the flecks of pink and cream paint that lingered on the portrait in the grooves of the artists final strokes.
Paul, too, says, Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh (2 Cor.x. 3), and The life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God (Gal. ii.