Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of deflesh
noundefleshing (countable and uncountable, plural defleshings)
plural defleshings
- countableuncountableThe act of removing the flesh.
In extreme circumstances they would, however, eat a little plant matter and fungus, as well as each other: twelve skeletons from El Sidrón Cave in Spain, bearing marks of death blows and defleshing, offering clear evidence of cannibalism.
2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 171
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