to skeletonize
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8.1
To draw only the main lines to show the basic shape
- verb
- /ˈskɛlɪtəˌnaɪz/
:
esquematizar
- For clarity, the architect will skeletonize the blueprint to highlight the essential structure of the building.
Examples
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The artist chose to skeletonize the landscape, focusing only on the basic outlines of the hills and trees.
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They're all skeletonized.
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It was a large, two-story country manor house of red brick; its skeletonized gable roof had two wooden horse's heads, one at each end.
Fiction book (2002) -
In her latest project, she decided to skeletonize the intricate design to make it easier to understand for the viewers.
Synonyms
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9.1
To reduce something complex to basic features while ignoring important details
focuses on visual or structural outlines rather than broad abstract reduction
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8.0
To show something in a simple picture or plan
emphasizes essential lines and framework rather than organized schematic form
Antonyms
How Simplified
Surface Forms
skeletonize infinitive
skeletonized past
skeletonized past participle
skeletonizing present participle
skeletonizes third person singular
Morphology
Etymology
Skeletonize comes from the word skeleton ('bones') and the ending -ize ('to make'), so to skeletonize a drawing is to 'turn it into its bones' by keeping only the main lines and frame.