flesh
US: /ˈfɫɛʃ/
UK: /flˈɛʃ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
flesh /flesh/- danh từ
- thịt
- thịt, cùi (quả)
- sự mập, sự béo
- to put on flesh: lên cân, béo ra
- to lose flesh: sút cân, gầy đi
- xác thịt, thú nhục dục
- to be flesh and blood
- là người trần
- to be in flesh
- béo
- flesh and blood
- cơ thể bằng da bằng thịt; loài người
- có thật, không tưởng tượng
- toàn bộ
- flesh and fell: toàn bộ thân thể
- to go the way of all flesh
- (xem) go
- in the flesh
- bằng xương bằng thịt
- to make someone's flesh creep
- (xem) creep
- one's own flesh and blood
- người máu mủ ruột thịt
- ngoại động từ
- kích thích (chó săn)
- làm cho hăng máu
- tập cho quen cảnh đổ máu
- đâm (gươm...) vào thịt
- vỗ béo, nuôi béo; làm cho có da có thịt
- nạo thịt (ở miếng da để thuộc)
- khai (đao...); (nghĩa bóng) khai (bút...)
- nội động từ
- (thông tục) béo ra, có da có thịt
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [U] the soft substance between the skin and bones of animal or human bodies: The trap had cut deeply into the rabbit's flesh. + Tigers are flesh-eating animals. + the smell of rotting flesh
2 [U] the skin of the human body: His fingers closed around the soft flesh of her arm. + flesh-coloured (= the colour of white people's skin)
3 [U] the soft part of fruit and vegetables, especially when it is eaten: the sweet flesh of a mango
4 (the flesh) [sing.] (literary) the human body when considering its physical and sexual needs, rather than the mind or soul: the pleasures / sins of the flesh
Idioms: flesh and blood when you say that sb is flesh and blood, you mean that they are a normal human being with needs, emotions and weaknesses: Listening to the cries was more than flesh and blood could stand.
your (own) flesh and blood a person that you are related to: You can't do that to your own flesh and blood!
in the flesh if you see sb in the flesh, you are in the same place as them and actually see them rather than just seeing a picture of them
make your flesh creep to make you feel afraid or full of disgust: Just the sight of him makes my flesh creep.
put flesh on (the bones of) sth to develop a basic idea, etc. by giving more details to make it more complete: The strength of the book is that it puts flesh on the bare bones of this argument.
more at POUND n., PRESS v., SPIRIT n., THORN, WAY n.
verb
Phrasal Verbs: flesh sth<->out to add more information or details to a plan, argument, etc: These points were fleshed out in the later parts of the speech. + None of his characters is fully fleshed out.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 meat; tissue, muscle:
We ate the flesh and threw away the fat, bones, and skin.
2 body, corporeality, flesh and blood, human nature, physicality; mortality:
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
3 flesh and blood. real, physical, corporeal, human, natural:
He pointed out that he was flesh and blood, not a robot.
4 in the flesh. personally, in person, really, physically, bodily, alive, living, in life:
She stood before me, in the flesh.
5 one's (own) flesh and blood. kin, kinsfolk or US and Canadian kinfolk, family, stock, blood, kith and kin, relatives, relations:
How could she treat her own flesh and blood that way?
v.
6 flesh out. substantiate, fill (in or out), give or lend substance or dimension to, incorporate, embody, colour:
The idea is good, but it needs fleshing out.
Collocation
1 soft part of sb's body
ADJ.
firm, smooth, soft, tender | pale, pink, white | bare, exposed | raw | torn | burning, burnt | rotting | living | dead | female, male | animal, human
VERB + FLESH
touch | cut (into)
His shirt was too small for him and cut into the tender flesh at his armpit.
| strip, tear at/off
Peregrine falcons usually pluck the feathers and strip the flesh off their bird prey. African hunting dogs will tear at the flesh of their victim until it is weak.
| dig into, pierce (into), tear (into)
Cook the duck until the juices run pale yellow when the flesh is pierced. The weapon tore into his flesh.
| eat
According to Greek mythology, the minotaur would only eat human flesh.
| become, make sth
(literary) In the Christian tradition, God is made flesh (= becomes human).
FLESH + VERB
tingle
My flesh tingled as I got out of the ice cold pool.
| crawl, creep
(both figurative) The scary story made his flesh creep (= made him feel afraid).
FLESH + NOUN
wound
The injury was only a flesh wound and would heal in ten days or so.
| tone
In the centre of the painting there is a woman painted in blues, reds and flesh tones (= colours used to paint human skin).
PREP.
in the ~
Thousands of fans gathered to see the band in the flesh (= see the band in reality and not just in a picture).
PHRASES
flesh and blood
She wasn't a ghost. She was flesh and blood (= alive/real).
| flesh and bone
Babies are born not just as bundles of flesh and bone (= not simply living bodies without thoughts or feelings)but with already distinctive personalities.
| the lusts/pleasures/sins/temptations of the flesh
His moral sermons always denounced the lusts of the flesh (= the fulfilment of purely physical or sexual desires).
| the smell of flesh
the smell of rotting flesh
2 soft part of fruit/vegetables
ADJ.
soft | sweet | juicy
VERB + FLESH
chop, cut
Pare the mangoes and cut the flesh away from the stone.
| scoop (out)
Cut the melon in half, remove the seeds and scoop out the flesh.
Concise dictionary
fleshes|fleshed|fleshingfleʃnoun
+the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
+alternative names for the body of a human being
+a soft moist part of a fruit
verb
+remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture
