I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flesh wound (= one that does not injure bones or parts inside the body )
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It’s only a flesh wound and will heal in ten days or so.
flesh wound
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
female
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He had first touched female flesh when only seventeen and had recoiled from the possibility it offered.
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The images of female flesh disappeared.
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What has caused this terror of female flesh ?
human
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Bearing in mind the recent huge casualty statistics, their sausages probably contained minced human flesh .
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He was a great horseman and he fed his horses human flesh to make them fierce in battle.
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Liese made the ocean sound like a hungry beast that demanded to be fed with human flesh .
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In her meticulous oils on linen, Doogan lovingly paints the crevices that time etches into human flesh .
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Then there are the cases that actually entail the strange meeting of manmade glass or metal and human flesh .
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The story is accompanied by a drawing of a dismembered hand clutching a forkful of human flesh .
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And the arms cringe when they touch human flesh .
living
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The next sentence introduces morality: the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh: because of the unbearable blood.
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A perfect sculpture of the living flesh .
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It reacts with the organic materials of living flesh .
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But now it was welded into the living flesh .
pale
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Only his yellow hair and pale flesh gave any light through the darkness.
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There was no blood, only a bulging of what looked like new pale flesh from the wound.
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As he caressed the two pale curves of flesh that rose above the water, he decided what to do about Scott.
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One held me as the other tore my dress and then the pale flesh under.
pink
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It wasn't fully dressed; many of its cucumber scales had fallen off, revealing pink flesh underneath.
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The barest crunch from the charred exterior gives way to juicy pink flesh .
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Place on the cake board. 2 Colour the fondant icing a pink flesh colour.
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Bernice watched, amazed, as a spiral of pink flesh rotated in the air behind the Doctor.
soft
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This acts like a cork in a bottle, stopping the borrow and preventing any attack on the soft flesh beneath it.
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His fingers pressed into the soft flesh of my arms as he tried to force apart my hands.
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He squeezed one and his fingers sank into the soft flesh .
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There was a stinging spot on the side of his tongue where his teeth had sunk into the soft flesh .
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He placed his free hand tentatively on the soft flesh .
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His hard knuckles ripped open the soft flesh over Luke's eye.
tender
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She moistened her lips, feeling the raised and tender flesh where her teeth had bitten through.
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Then the hands of the stocking-masked men were on her, their fingers digging into the tender flesh of her arms.
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He picked the tender flesh carefully from the bones.
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Juicy, crisp, tender flesh and highly aromatic.
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Sometimes she believed hooves were cutting her tender inside flesh , sometimes claws.
warm
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He touched her face very tenderly and believed he felt warm flesh .
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They will cook the fish, eat the sweet warm flesh with chunks of dark rye bread.
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The feel of his warm flesh was too much to resist, and with a little groan she slid her arms round him.
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Naked they embraced, body to body, warm flesh blending as one.
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Lucy came - Jay's fingertips blazoned with the feel of her warm flesh - and crouched to see.
■ NOUN
wound
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Casualties amounted to one man killed, a few flesh wounds and two jeeps destroyed.
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The healthy kind is analogous to how the body treats a simple flesh wound .
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Even so, it's only a flesh wound and will heal in ten days or so.
■ VERB
cut
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To raise her knees would cause the ropes securing her body to cut into her flesh .
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It cut right into my flesh , and I bled copiously.
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It can cut badly, either flesh or other lines, even itself!
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Two policemen rotated the sticks, causing the ropes to cut into his flesh .
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Peel the avocados, cut them in half lengthways and remove the stones. Cut the flesh into thin slices.
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She knew it would give a nasty sting, but it wouldn't cut her flesh to ribbons.
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The ropes began to cut into her flesh , as she wriggled against them to avoid cramp.
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Scoop out the seeds and discard. 5 Cut out the flesh leaving a thin border.
eat
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They can and will eat anything - flesh and bone, wood, rocks, bits of metal.
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But earlier this year I stopped eating flesh in any form.
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Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire.
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They will cook the fish, eat the sweet warm flesh with chunks of dark rye bread.
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The devout Buddhist sees the hare who was willing to be roasted alive so the starving brahmin could eat his flesh .
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After the killing they ate the flesh of their father.
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It seems that primitive peoples ate human flesh for broadly two reasons.
make
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He draped the jacket round her shoulders, his hands briefly making contact with her flesh .
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And Thomas Hudson, born as poor as herself and just as upward mobile, was gentility personified, sensibility made flesh .
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It also makes Troll flesh virtually impossible to eat unless it is very thoroughly cooked.
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Imagine: their data made flesh !
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However, they made flesh at the expense of milk: the breed does seem to milk better in harder conditions.
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Words there are made flesh so I may touch them and she can feel it.
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It frightens me how a child can be made of flesh and blood but decay to wood.
press
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He jabs his finger to slam home his message and he is happy to press flesh and kiss babies.
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His fingers pressed into the soft flesh of my arms as he tried to force apart my hands.
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She gripped my hand, pressing dirt and flesh into my palm.
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Clinton stayed long enough to press the flesh and view several sample issue ads with the donors.
tear
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He walked hesitatingly forward, his skin tensed for the feeling of metal tearing flesh .
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And then I tie up the boxes with the red-and-white string that always tears into my flesh .
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Julie struck again, this time catching him just above the right eye, tearing the flesh .
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A bomb is a terrible and random instrument for tearing flesh .
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It was matted, thorny stuff that would tear unprotected flesh to ribbons.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get/take/demand etc your pound of flesh
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The Government gets its pound of flesh, doesn't it.
mortify the flesh/yourself
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We may imagine an ascetic who consistently chooses the sour instead of the sweet apple, in order to mortify the flesh.
press the flesh
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Smiling happily, the President reached into the crowd to press the flesh.
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Clinton stayed long enough to press the flesh and view several sample issue ads with the donors.
sb/sth makes my flesh creep
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And this was an edifice that would house the greatest mystery of all: wine into blood, bread into flesh .
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But I must stop, for I am turning Word into numbers not into flesh .
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Charles Tekeyan believed that this feeling is solely a matter of continued excellence in the flesh .
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She had unscrewed them, simply turned them through her flesh .
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Stephen felt Weir's fingers digging into the flesh between his ribs.
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The fingers squeezed my flesh gently.
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They showed a mercy to house and land which they denied to flesh and blood.
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This father and his two sons knew the smell of their own decaying flesh .
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get/take/demand etc your pound of flesh
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The Government gets its pound of flesh, doesn't it.
the spirit is willing (but the flesh is weak)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Nobody bothered to flesh out the story with others.
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The new cabin is supposed to flesh the strategy out.
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They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out.
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Thus he and other researchers are gradually fleshing out the Supercontinent Cycle.