Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To reduce to skeleton form: "Carnivorous beetles ... can skeletonize a bat within hours” ( Scientific American).
- v. To outline or sketch briefly.
- v. To reduce in size or number: skeletonized the hospital staff to cut costs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To reduce to a skeleton, as by removing the flesh or other soft tissues from the framework; make a skeleton or mere framework of or from: as, to skeletonize a leaf by eating out its soft parts, as an insect, or by removing them by maceration: particularly said of the preparation of skeletons as objects of study.
- Milit., to reduce the size or numbers of; deplete: as, a skeletonized army.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
Examples
“Well, in Tennessee, it can take days or even weeks for scavengers to skeletonize a sixty-pound hog.”
“The book is also full of usefully macabre details, like the fact that fat people skeletonize faster than skinny ones do.”
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“Tonight, I shall see how many minutes it will take me to skeletonize a box of McNuggets.”
“According to the encyclopedia, a school of piranha can skeletonize a cow in minutes.”
“How quickly can the Althouse commentariat skeletonize a cow?”
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“D'ONOFRIO: A forensic expert tells Local 6, it would have only taken two weeks for a child's body to completely skeletonize during a typical Florida summer.”
“Small specimens which it is proposed to skeletonize are best preserved entire in alcoholic solution as loss and breakage are thus prevented.”
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“However, the larvae of several generations of hollyhock sawflies skeletonize the leaves on my plants each summer.”
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