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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enflesh en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + flesh.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To envelop or supply with flesh.
    • Vices which are […] enfleshed in him. 1598, John Florio, “Enflesh”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC:
    • Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim." 2023, Shelley Lynn Tremain, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, page 1936:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
enfleshes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
enfleshed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enfleshed Tense=Past lexicographic
enfleshing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

enfleshment