flesh

The skin covering a person or animal.

• The sun burned her exposed flesh.
• Cold air touched the bare flesh of his arms.
• The sharp wire cut into my flesh.

Similar words: skin

Common phrases: bare flesh, exposed flesh, pale flesh

The soft parts of an animal that people can eat.

• The flesh was tender.
• They removed the flesh from the bones.
• Some animals feed on the flesh of other animals.

Similar words: meat

Common phrases: animal flesh, raw flesh, eat flesh

The soft part inside a fruit or vegetable, often eaten.

• The peach has sweet flesh.
• Scoop the flesh out of the melon.
• These pumpkins have firm orange flesh.

Similar words: pulp

Common phrases: melon flesh, soft flesh, sweet flesh

A pale yellowish pink colour like some light skin.

• She mixed white and pink to make flesh.
• The old paint chart lists a shade called flesh.
• He chose flesh as the colour for the doll.

Common phrases: flesh colour, flesh tone

To add more details to an idea, plan, or piece of writing.

• We need to flesh out the plan.
• She fleshed out her story with details about the village.
• Can you flesh this idea out before our meeting?

How to use it: flesh out something (Please flesh out your proposal.); flesh something out (We can flesh it out tomorrow.)

Similar words: expand, develop

Common phrases: flesh out something, flesh something out

To make an animal gain weight, especially by feeding it well.

• They used grain to flesh the cattle.
• Fresh pasture helped flesh the sheep.
• The farmer fleshed his animals before winter.

Similar words: fatten

Common phrases: flesh cattle, flesh sheep

To remove meat and fat from an animal skin before making leather.

• Workers flesh the hides by hand.
• He fleshed the skin with a special knife.
• You must flesh each hide before treating it.

Common phrases: flesh a hide, flesh animal skins