Flesh

Definition

flesh / fleʃ / n ၁။ [U] (က) (လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္) အသား။ The trap had cut deeply into the rabbit's flesh. (ခ) အသား။ Tigers are flesh-eating animals. ၂။ [U] (လူ႕အေရျပား) အသား။ the pale flesh of English people on holiday abroad. ၃။ the flesh [sing] ခႏၶာကိုယ္။ ခႏၶာ။ ကိုယ္။ ကာယ။ ေသြးသား။ the pleasures / sins of the flesh ❍ (saying) The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak (ie Although sb may want to do sth, they are too lazy, tired, weak,etc actually to do it). ၄။ [U] (သစ္သီး) အသား။ the sweet flesh of a mango. ❍ FRUIT ❏ flesh and blood [ IDM ] ေသြးႏွင့္ကိုယ္ သားႏွင့္ကိုယ္။ It was more than flesh and blood could bear. ❏ one's (own) flesh and blood [ IDM ] ေသြးသား။ ေသြးခ်င္း။ ေဆြမ်ဳိးအရင္းအခ်ာ။ You can't treat her like that! She's your sister, your own flesh and blood! ❏ fleshly adj ( fml or rhet ) ေသြးသား။ ကာမဂုဏ္ အာ႐ံု။ fleshly lusts. ❏ flesh sth out [ PHRV ] ျဖည့္ေပးသည္။ Your ideas will need fleshing out before you present them to the board. ❏ flesh-wound n အသားအေရတြင္ျဖစ္ေသာ ဒဏ္ရာ။ ❏ fleshy adj ၁။ ဆူၿဖိဳးေသာ။ fleshy arms / lips. ၂။ အသား ထူေသာ။ fleshy peaches / leaves. ❏ in the flesh [ IDM ] ကိုယ္တိုင္။ I've listened to all her records but I've never seen her in the flesh. ❏ make one's / sb's flesh crawl / creep [ IDM ] ၾကက္သီးထသည္။ The mere sight of snakes makes my flesh creep.

Examples

1. The dog’s teeth sank into my flesh.
2. I felt the soft flesh of his cheek.
3. These pears have a sweet
4. juicy flesh.
5. [the pleasures of the flesh] : He often preached against the pleasures of the flesh.