Flense

//flɛns// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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. 2
    strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal) wordnet

Synonyms

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flayflayfleeceskin

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"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).

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