Usually means: Removing excess fat and muscle.
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  1. fleshing: Merriam-Webster
  2. fleshing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fleshing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. fleshing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Fleshing, fleshing: Wordnik
  6. fleshing: Wiktionary
  7. Fleshing, fleshing: Dictionary.com
  8. Fleshing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. fleshing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Fleshing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. fleshing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. fleshing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. fleshing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fleshing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fleshing: Medical dictionary

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  1. fleshing: Idioms

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(Note: See flesh as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (flesh)

noun:  The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
noun:  The skin of a human or animal.
noun:  (by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
noun:  Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish).
noun:  The human body as a physical entity.
noun:  (religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
noun:  (religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
noun:  The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
noun:  (obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
noun:  (obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
noun:  A yellowish pink color; the color of some Caucasian human skin.
verb:  (transitive) To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh.
verb:  (transitive) To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
verb:  (obsolete) To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
verb:  (transitive) To glut.
verb:  (transitive) To put flesh on; to fatten.
verb:  To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
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