Flense
/flɛns/ verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
"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."
- 2 strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Danish flense (now spelled flænse).