Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to flense
Participle: flensed
Gerund: flensing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | flense |
| you | flense |
| he;she;it | flenses |
| we | flense |
| you | flense |
| they | flense |
Perfect
| I | have flensed |
| you | have flensed |
| he;she;it | has flensed |
| we | have flensed |
| you | have flensed |
| they | have flensed |
Past
| I | flensed |
| you | flensed |
| he;she;it | flensed |
| we | flensed |
| you | flensed |
| they | flensed |
Pluperfect
| I | had flensed |
| you | had flensed |
| he;she;it | had flensed |
| we | had flensed |
| you | had flensed |
| they | had flensed |
Future
| I | will flense |
| you | will flense |
| he;she;it | will flense |
| we | will flense |
| you | will flense |
| they | will flense |
Future Perfect
| I | will have flensed |
| you | will have flensed |
| he;she;it | will have flensed |
| we | will have flensed |
| you | will have flensed |
| they | will have flensed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | flense |
| you | flense |
| he;she;it | flense |
| we | flense |
| you | flense |
| they | flense |
Perfect
| I | have flensed |
| you | have flensed |
| he;she;it | have flensed |
| we | have flensed |
| you | have flensed |
| they | have flensed |
Imperfect
| I | flensed |
| you | flensed |
| he;she;it | flensed |
| we | flensed |
| you | flensed |
| they | flensed |
Pluperfect
| I | had flensed |
| you | had flensed |
| he;she;it | had flensed |
| we | had flensed |
| you | had flensed |
| they | had flensed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would flense |
| you | would flense |
| he;she;it | would flense |
| we | would flense |
| you | would flense |
| they | would flense |
Perfect
| I | would have flensed |
| you | would have flensed |
| he;she;it | would have flensed |
| we | would have flensed |
| you | would have flensed |
| they | would have flensed |
Imperative
| you | flense |
| we | Let's flense |
| you | flense |
Verbs conjugated like 'flense'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'flense'
cense,
cleanse,
fease,
fence,
flange,
fleche,
fledge,
flee,
fleece,
fleme,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Borrowed from Danish flense (now spelled flænse). See: Danish '
flense'.
Sample Sentences
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In this domain right sex is capital, it flenses the feelings of all the poisonous artifices brought in by the think-box in the guise of clever ideas. [1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 198:]
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His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed. [2001, Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion, →ISBN, page 191:]
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For that reason, among others, he would never evince the particular guantness, the cut and flagrant sense of purpose - all compromise and capacity for surrender flensed away - which had made Thomas Covenant ir-refusable to her. [2004, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Runes of the Earth, →ISBN, page 5:]
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It engulfed screaming soldiers who disappeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them. [2008, Ian C. Esselemont, Return of the Crimson Guard, →ISBN, page 569:]
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The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands. If they defeated potential invaders the New Irish hanged the vanquished from banyan trees, flensed their windpipes, removed their heads, left their intestines to jerk in the sun. [2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106:]