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Definition: FLENSE |
FLENSETransitive verb1. To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. |
Etymology: Flense \Flense\, transitive verb. [Compare to Danish flense, Dutch vlensen, vlenzen, Scottish flinch.]. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "FLENSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | heq lëkurën e fokës ose të balenës. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | одирам (abrade, excoriate, flay, flench, raw, skin, soak, tear off), насичам (chop, cut in very small pieces, dismember, flench, hack, haggle, hew down, massacre). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megnyúz (to excise, to flench, to flense, to skin). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | enseflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esquartejar (flench, quarter, scarf), esfolar (bark, desquamate, excoriate, flay, fleece, flench, flinch, fret, gall, graze, milk, rase, raw, raze, scale, scalp, skin, strip). (various references) | |
Russian | обдирать (flay, fleece, fleeced, flench, rip off, victimize). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skidati sloj kitove masti (flench). (various references) | |
Spanish | tomar cuero (flench). (various references) | |
Swedish | flänsa (flange). (various references) | |
Turkish | yağını çıkarmak (flench), balinayı yüzmek (flench), ayıbalığını yüzmek (flench). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | здирати шкуру (flay, flench), добувати ворвань (flench). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLENSE": flensed, flenser, flensers, flenses. (additional references) | |
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"FLENSE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clense, feldene, fense, Fenzi, flease, flence, flenser, Flessa, flinse, fresne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: feels, flees, lenes, lense. | |
-2 letters: eels, else, feel, fees, fens, flee, lees, lens, seel, seen, self, sene. | |
-3 letters: eel, efs, elf, els, ens, fee, fen, lee, nee, see, sel, sen. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, en, es, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: felines, fennels, flensed, flenser, flenses, fresnel, oneself. | |
+2 letters: enflames, feelings, fellness, felonies, felstone, fenagles, fernless, flenches, flensers, fresnels, menseful, needfuls, olefines, selfness, senseful, sheenful, sneerful. | |
+3 letters: effluents, enfeebles, enfilades, enfolders, evenfalls, falseness, felonries, felstones, fenceless, fencibles, fenestral, filenames, flaneries, fleabanes, fleetness, fleshment, florences, fluencies, fluorenes, fulnesses, lifelines, resentful, sevenfold, spleenful, unbeliefs. | |
+4 letters: affluences, defensible, defensibly, effluences, facileness, feculences, feebleness, felinities, fellnesses, femaleness, fenderless, fickleness, fieldstone, flatnesses, flatteners, fleshiness, fleshments, florescent, foulnesses, freelances, friendless, friendlies, fullerenes, fullnesses, futileness, genuflects, greenflies, halfnesses, infeasible, infielders, influences, interfiles, minefields, needlefish, nonbeliefs, reflexions, refluences, reinflates, ruefulness, selfnesses, stoneflies, unfeasible, usefulness, wifeliness, woefulness, wulfenites. | |
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