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flesh-eating Definition

flesh·-eating (-ēt′iŋ)

adjective

habitually eating flesh; carnivorous

flesh-eating Usage Examples

Object

  • zombie: The plot revolves around Curt and Julie - Julie dies, comes back to life, then slowly becomes a flesh-eating zombie.
  • bug: After all, flu is a real illness that we all have experience of, a far more plausible menace than a flesh-eating bug.
  • virus: MULDER: Worse than the time we were attacked by the flesh-eating virus?
  • monster: Also, in my future, there's a lot of life out there, and no shortage of flesh-eating monsters.
  • bacterium: In the 1990s sensational medical journalists dramatized the whole process of necrotising fascitis by associating it with flesh-eating bacteria.
  • disease: On the positive side, there would likely be fewer cases of flesh-eating disease in young children.

Modifies a noun

  • bug: The doctors face was grim as he went on to explain that it was the flesh-eating bug which had been reported in the media.
  • beetle: The plant emits a stench to attract decaying flesh-eating beetles, flies and sweat bees for pollination.

Browse dictionary entries near flesh-eating

  1. flesh-colored
  2. flesh and blood
  3. flesh
  4. flense
  5. Flemish
  6. Fleming
  7. fleetness
  8. fleeting
  9. Fleet Street
  10. fleet admiral
  1. flesh fly
  2. flesh meat
  3. flesh wound
  4. fleshiness
  5. fleshings
  6. fleshly
  7. fleshpot
  8. fleshy
  9. fletch
  10. fletcher