Meanings
- not comparableThat consumes flesh.
Certain flesh-eating peoples will not partake of animal blood in any form, but require all blood to be first drained from the meat.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 1641 more example
His ferocious cry and the horrible energy of his pursuit both assured me that this was surely one of the great flesh-eating dinosaurs, the most terrible beasts which have ever walked this earth.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLCSynonyms: meat-eating, carnivorous, creophagous
- not comparableOf bacteria, necrotizing.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat consumes flesh.
More synonyms by meaning
adjective(of animals) carnivorous
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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flesh-eating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flesh-eating
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