SKELETONIZE

Etymology

Verb

skeletonize (third-person singular simple present skeletonizes, present participle skeletonizing, simple past and past participle skeletonized)

To reduce to a skeleton.

Source: Wiktionary


Skel"e*ton*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skeletonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Skeletonizing.]

Definition: To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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