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FLENSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flense mean?
• FLENSE (verb)
The verb FLENSE has 1 sense:
1. strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)
Familiarity information: FLENSE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they flense ... he / she / it flenses
Past simple: flensed
Past participle: flensed
-ing form: flensing
... he / she / it flenses Past simple: flensed
Past participle: flensed
-ing form: flensing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "flense" is one way to...):
get rid of; remove (dispose of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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