Synonyms for flesh
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1. fleshnoun

   the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat

   Synonyms:
   material body, chassis, build, form, figure, shape, pulp, human body, physical body, soma, physique, anatomy, frame, bod

2. human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, fleshnoun

   alternative names for the body of a human being

   "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"

   Synonyms:
   framing, course, skeletal system, figure, pulp, frame, shape, variety, kind, conformation, figure of speech, image, chassis, physical body, trope, frame of reference, soma, haoma, human body, underframe, strain, contour, grade, systema skeletale, general anatomy, cast, form, mannikin, inning, physique, phase, mannequin, condition, skeleton, body-build, habitus, configuration, fig, variant, number, digit, class, pattern, bod, name, skeletal frame, signifier, embodiment, descriptor, manikin, public figure, sort, anatomy, word form, var., design, material body, manakin, build

3. pulp, fleshverb

   a soft moist part of a fruit

   Synonyms:
   shape, bod, figure, mush, material body, frame, form, build, chassis, anatomy, physical body, pulp, pulp magazine, soma, human body, physique

4. fleshverb

   remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture

Matched Categories

1. • Animal Tissue
   • Body
   • Remove

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   muscle and fat (of animal bodies)

2. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   meat, animal food

3. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   pulp, edible part of fruit

4. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   body (as opposed to spirit), flesh and blood

5. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   carnality, sensual appetites, bodily desires

6. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   kindred, stock, race

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fleshnoun

   Synonyms:
   meat, carnage, pulp (of fruit), carnality, sensual appetites, carrion (decaying flesh)

   Associated words:
   incarnate, incarnation, excarnate, excarnation, carnate, carneous, trichina, trichinosis, carnassial, carnification, carnify

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "flesh":

   meat, pulp, chair, broiler, skin

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1. Jamela Dunbar:

   The flesh of my flesh. And the bone of my bone. Must return to mother earth to replenish the soil of the ground. As manure is to the plants.”

2. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:

   It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

3. Teto Wilson:

   It feels like and sounds like an experiment. They have not been able to flesh out from top to bottom what this Department of Public Safety is gonna look like, you know, if you can't tell us -- and I'm not saying you have to have one hundred percent of everything, you know, fleshed out -- but give us something. You know what I mean? Put some meat on the bones. There's nothing here other than we're gonna have a Department of Public Safety and, you know, it's gonna have mental health workers that go on calls. That's not enough.

4. Vicki Bergquist:

   It’s a flesh-eating bacteria. She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria.

5. Anderson H. Scruggs:

   Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.