unflesh

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ flesh.

Verb

unflesh (third-person singular simple present unfleshes, present participle unfleshing, simple past and past participle unfleshed)

1. (transitive) To strip of flesh.
   1. To reduce to a skeleton.
      • 1827, William Wordsworth, Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe:

        Skeleton of unfleshed humanity.

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

References

• “unflesh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.