enflesh

E1N1F4L1E1S1H4

verb

To envelop or supply with flesh.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbenflesh (third-person singular simple present enfleshes, present participle enfleshing, simple past and past participle enfleshed)

present singular third person enfleshes · participle present enfleshing · participle past enfleshed · past enfleshed

  1. transitiveTo envelop or supply with flesh.

    Vices which are […] enfleshed in him.

    1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC
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    Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

    2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936

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