Home › Words › D › defleshdefleshdeflesh means to remove the flesh from someone or something.EtymologyFrom de- + flesh.verbTo remove the flesh from someone or something.e.g.“Bifacially retouched knives used to deflesh hides and to cut meat or skin can be distinguished by their edge angle and partially by their shape.” — 1982, Christopher Carr, Handbook on soil resistivity surveying, page 284:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.defleshing 89% match — The act of removing the flesh. vs deflesh →unflesh 84% match — To strip of flesh.; To reduce to a skeleton. vs deflesh →disflesh 79% match — To reduce the flesh or obesity of. vs deflesh →excarnificate 75% match — To strip (something or someone) of flesh, perhaps as a form of torture. vs deflesh →excarnate 73% match — Deprived or stripped of flesh. vs deflesh →flesher 71% match — A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather. vs deflesh →unfleshed 70% match — Having no flesh. vs deflesh →debone 68% match — To remove the bones from. vs deflesh →