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defleshing

vb. (present participle of deflesh English)

Usage examples of "defleshing".

He and two of my residents were working on the burned woman's body, defleshing her as best they could with plastic spatulas, because anything harder might scratch the bones.

I worked very carefully, loosening and defleshing while the rest of the skeletal remains quietly cooked in their steamy pot.