Carnal Illustrations
Fleshnoun
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
Carnaladjective
Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites.
Fleshnoun
The skin of a human or animal.
Carnaladjective
Worldly or earthly; temporal.
Fleshnoun
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
Carnaladjective
Of or relating to the body or flesh.
Fleshnoun
Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
Carnaladjective
Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
‘For ye are yet carnal.’; ‘Not sunk in carnal pleasure.’; ‘Carnal desires after miracles.’;
Fleshnoun
The human body as a physical entity.
Carnaladjective
Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody.
‘This carnal curPreys on the issue of his mother's body.’;
Fleshnoun
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
Carnaladjective
of the appetites and passions of the body;
‘animal instincts’; ‘carnal knowledge’; ‘fleshly desire’; ‘a sensual delight in eating’; ‘music is the only sensual pleasure without vice’;
Fleshnoun
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
Carnaladjective
of or relating to the body or flesh;
‘carnal remains’;
Fleshnoun
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
Carnaladjective
of or relating to or belonging to the body;
‘a bodily organ’; ‘bodily functions’; ‘carnal remains’;
Fleshnoun
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
Carnaladjective
relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities
‘carnal desire’;
Fleshnoun
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
Fleshnoun
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
Fleshverb
(transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
Fleshverb
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
Fleshverb
To put flesh on; to fatten.
Fleshverb
To add details.
‘The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.’;
Fleshverb
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
Fleshnoun
The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
Fleshnoun
Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
‘With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread.’;
Fleshnoun
The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
‘As if this flesh, which walls about our life,Were brass impregnable.’;
Fleshnoun
The human eace; mankind; humanity.
‘All flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.’;
Fleshnoun
Human nature
‘There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.’;
Fleshnoun
In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
Fleshnoun
Kindred; stock; race.
‘He is our brother and our flesh.’;
Fleshnoun
The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
Fleshverb
To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; - from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
‘Full bravely hast thou fleshedThy maiden sword.’; ‘The wild dogShall flesh his tooth on every innocent.’;
Fleshverb
To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
‘Old soldiersFleshed in the spoils of Germany and France.’;
Fleshverb
To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.
Fleshnoun
the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
Fleshnoun
alternative names for the body of a human being;
‘Leonardo studied the human body’; ‘he has a strong physique’; ‘the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak’;
Fleshnoun
a soft moist part of a fruit
Flesh
Flesh is a term for some soft tissues of an organism. Various multicellular organisms have soft tissues that may be called .
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