Flesh and Matter

Flesh

Flesh noun - Animal and especially mammal tissue used as food.

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Matter and flesh are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Matter" instead a noun "Flesh".

Nearby Words: fleshy, fleshly, fleshed, fleshing

Matter noun - A major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition).

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Flesh and matter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Flesh" instead a noun "Matter".

Nearby Words: mattered, mattery, mattering

normal	normal flesh	normal matter
solid	solid flesh	solid matter
dead	dead flesh	dead matter
raw	raw flesh	raw matter
Other adjectives: actual, real, organic, white, mere, strange, different.

Tensors can pulverize most matter, but can't affect flesh (at one point a skilled user punches some Enforcement mooks while disintegrating holes in their body armor for his fist to go through).

Source: Only Flesh Is Safe
He regrows them in a matter of moments by having the nanomachines in his blood actually eat the charred hunks of flesh before returning to his body, much to his enemy's horror.

Source: Good Thing You Can Heal
They constantly hunger for more human flesh, and no matter how much they eat they constantly look emaciated.

Source: Our Zombies Are Different

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