: having flesh especially of a specified kind
often used in combination
pink-fleshed
thick-fleshed

Examples of fleshed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The two characters are even more fleshed out in Season 2, picking up on the heels of the first season’s tumultuous finale, which saw Alicent putting her son Aegon on the throne, usurping Rhaenyra’s own claim after King Viserys named her heir. Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2024 It’s taken three American showrunners to embrace you as being from Salford, Manchester, being from the north, and give you a fully fleshed, complex character. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 3 Apr. 2024 Pleasant but awfully thin, feeling like a short insufficiently fleshed out to feature length, this modest nostalgic exercise provides a lightweight opener to this year’s Rotterdam fest. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024 Its hairpin, at times tenuous plot shifts and plot transitions would’ve been more forgiven and could be more fleshed out in a limited series. Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for fleshed 

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of fleshed was in the 15th century

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“Fleshed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fleshed. Accessed 11 Sep. 2024.

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