MEANING
Feeding on flesh, especially as a trait of a predator, disease, or horror creature.
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Use for a creature, infection, or threat that consumes flesh.Describe a predator or disease whose danger is bodily and direct.
Words that belong together
- flesh-eating animal
- flesh-eating infection
- flesh-eating creature
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A flesh-eating swarm stripped the carcass before sunrise.
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- flesh-eating
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Usage notes
A hyphenated compound adjective; use for literal predation or a medical condition, not as an automatic synonym for monstrous.
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