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What is the verb for skeletons?

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skeleton
skeletalize
  1. (transitive) To reduce to a bare or skeletal form.
skeletonise
  1. Alternative spelling of skeletonize
skeletonize
  1. To reduce to a skeleton.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The larvae skeletonize the foliage, but feeding damage is not conspicuous at this stage.”
      “Ordinarily the way this is done is to skeletonize them, that is to say, to carve away all but the bare minimum of metal.”
      “We skeletonize our thoughts behind the scenes, but the skeleton is rather an unsightly specimen to exhibit before a class.”
skeletonizes
skeletalizes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skeletalize
skeletonises
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skeletonise
skeletalized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of skeletalize
skeletonised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of skeletonise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The art of watchmaking is clearly visible through its dial thanks to its skeletonised movement.”
      “Diaphysial shrinkage in skeletonised or mummified fetal bones is a direct result of loss of water and organic matrix, such as hyaline connective tissue through desiccation.”
skeletoned
skeletonizing
  1. present participle of skeletonize
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “You will soon discover this in skeletonizing your first crocodilian, and be sure to respect its anatomy.”
      “Its textured face and skeletonizing cuts provide some style to a rifle that doesn't otherwise have a lot of bling.”
      “Dissection through cuff closure I start all my cases on the right side, holding the infundibulopelvic or utero-ovarian ligament on tension and skeletonizing it.”
skeletalizing
  1. present participle of skeletalize
skeletonising
  1. present participle of skeletonise
skeletoning
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