flense
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From Danish flense.
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flense (third-person singular simple present flenses, present participle flensing, simple past and past participle flensed)
- To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 198:
- In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas.
- 2001, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, page 191 ISBN 0-380-97901-2:
- His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed.
- 2004, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth, page 5 ISBN 0-399-15232-6:
- For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her.
- 2008, Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard, page 569 ISBN 978059305809:
- It engulfed screaming soldiers who dissapeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 198:
