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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
flesh
/flɛʃ/
noun1 of 2
the soft parts of the body
- “He is bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.”Tatoeba
- “The idea of flesh-eating plants has long captured the human imagination.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)