defleshing

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Verb

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defleshing

  1. present participle and gerund of deflesh

Noun

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defleshing (countable and uncountable, plural defleshings)

  1. The act of removing the flesh.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 171:
      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.