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flesh-eatingadjective1(Of an animal or plant) carnivorous: flesh-eating carrion crows a flesh-eating pitcher plant...- In the spring of 1999, The Mummy was released and unleashed hordes of decomposing corpses, flesh-eating scarabs, and Biblical plagues onto an audience in the glory of digital special effects.
- According to the British natural historians' paranoid belief, the flesh-eating beast was the symbol of rebellious disorder, of a "radical reversal of roles between master and servant."
- They were heading for peace and isolation, and they sure got that, along with giant finger-breaking coconut crabs, flesh-eating ants, and hungry sharks.
1.1(Of a disease or microorganism) destructive to body tissue: flesh-eating bacteria...- Your chance of being killed by flesh-eating bacteria is 1 in 1 million.
- I couldn't understand what he was talking about: this was the flesh eating virus!
- A specialist, consulted through telemedicine, found that the man was actually infected with flesh-eating streptococcus bacteria.
1.2(Of a supernatural creature) feeding on human flesh: flesh-eating zombies...- A highly contagious virus has transformed almost every human into flesh-eating zombies.
- A group of strangers barricade themselves into a house in order to escape from a horde of flesh-eating zombies.
- A few hours later, they turn into flesh-eating ghouls, and attack everyone around them.
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