Synonyms for flesh
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : flesh |
| Phonetic Transcription : flɛʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for flesh Other synonyms for the word flesh
Définition of flesh
Origin :- Old English flæsc "flesh, meat," also "near kindred" (a sense now obsolete except in phrase flesh and blood), common West and North Germanic (cf. Old Frisian flesk, Middle Low German vlees, German Fleisch "flesh," Old Norse flesk "pork, bacon"), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flaiskoz-.
- Figurative use for "animal or physical nature of man" (Old English) is from the Bible, especially Paul's use of Greek sarx, which yielded sense of "sensual appetites" (c.1200). Flesh-wound is from 1670s; flesh-color, the hue of "Caucasian" skin, is first recorded 1610s, described as a tint composed of "a light pink with a little yellow" [O'Neill, "Dyeing," 1862]. An Old English poetry-word for "body" was flæsc-hama, literally "flesh-home."
- noun body tissue, skin
- noun humankind
- The fingers thrust at his throat—he seemed to be tearing his own flesh.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- Oh, strong, strong are the ties of flesh, and hard it is to subdue the spirit!
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- You don't think I would leave my own flesh and blood in the cellar!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Your flesh has never been made to creep: but the cockles of your heart have been warmed.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- The fingers should be used to separate the flesh at this place.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- Their flesh should be firm and stiff and their eyes should be bright.
- Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
- She thrilled to the touch of his lips on her flesh; but she drew her arm away.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Shakespeare did not take interest enough in her to give her flesh and blood.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- The thorn of Anna's inefficiency had always rankled in her flesh.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
Antonyms for flesh
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