(v. t.) To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The spending review this month will demand even greater cuts from budgets that have already been comprehensively flensed.
(2) He said he is aware of YouTube videos showing a bloated, beached sperm whale in the Faroe Islands that suddenly explodes as a scientist uses a large, flensing knife to cut open its underside.
(3) Uninterruptably so - for despite his obvious frailty, his mind is still flensing-sharp, and he still does that trick of wrong-footing the emphasis... 'that would be the first point but insuperably more important is that' (pause for breath)... so the breaks come when you least expect them and you can't interrupt.