What does flense mean in crosswords?

flense means: strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)

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flense

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈflɛns/Part of speech verbSorted eeflnsStarts with FEnds with E0 clues

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Borrowed from Danish flense (now spelled flænse).

“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.”
“His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed.”
“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.”

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