Fleshify

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make or become flesh; to incarnate.

    "Now Shakspeare must have known that the spirit of Artemus, when fleshified as Ward, would produce a good fellow, or he would not have done it."

  2. 2
    To fatten; to swell; to grow fleshy.

    "A vascular stem will be seen, and at the top of it a whorl of fleshified leaves all enclosed within the tubercle."

Example

More examples

"Now Shakspeare must have known that the spirit of Artemus, when fleshified as Ward, would produce a good fellow, or he would not have done it."

Etymology

From flesh + -ify.

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