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to skeletonize

to skeletonize

8.1
To draw only the main lines to show the basic shape
  • verb
  • /ˈskɛlɪtəˌnaɪz/
translation icon : esquematizar
  • For clarity, the architect will skeletonize the blueprint to highlight the essential structure of the building.

Examples

  • The artist chose to skeletonize the landscape, focusing only on the basic outlines of the hills and trees.

  • They're all skeletonized.

    Ted Bundy (2002)

  • 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

to essentialize
vsto skeletonize
  • Formal
1 9.1

To reduce something complex to basic features while ignoring important details

focuses on visual or structural outlines rather than broad abstract reduction
to schematize
vsto skeletonize
  • Formal
8.0

To show something in a simple picture or plan

emphasizes essential lines and framework rather than organized schematic form

Antonyms

to elaborate
79 4.2

To give more details or explain something more fully

How Simplified

to skeletonize
8.1
to simplify
99 2.5
to sketch
45 3.0
outline
59 2.7

Surface Forms

skeletonize infinitive
skeletonized past
skeletonized past participle
skeletonizing present participle
skeletonizes third person singular

Morphology

skeletonize = skeleton (transparent) = skeleton + ize

The verb 'skeletonize' is transparently derived from 'skeleton' with the suffix '-ize', indicating the action of reducing something to its basic structure.

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.