💀 To remove flesh 🖊️ To outline 🍃 To strip parts

to skeletonize

1 8.9

To remove the flesh from a body until only the bones remain

verb
/ˈskɛlɪtəˌnaɪz/

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: desollar

The styloid process was skeletonized, and the attaching ligaments were separated from it (Figure 2).

And to tell you the truth, we don't find skeletonized remains that often.

Examples

The problem mainly arises when the body is recovered in an advanced stage of decomposition, a mutilated state, and a skeletonized state.

Academic text (2007)
And to tell you the truth, we don't find skeletonized remains that often.

Film Courage
And to tell you the truth, we don't find skeletonized remains that often.

Film Courage
The styloid process is skeletonized during surgical resection via the transoral approach.

Academic text (2006)
The archaeologists discovered a skeletonized human body in the ancient burial site.
Remains of the animal were skeletonized after years of exposure to the elements.
The forensic team examined the skeletonized remains to determine the cause of death.

Synonyms

to deflesh

vsto skeletonize

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1 9.9

To remove meat from bones for study or display

leaves only the skeleton by removing all flesh or tissue

Antonyms

to preserve

496 3.4

To keep people and things safe from harm or change

How Defleshed

to skeletonize

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1 8.9

to eviscerate

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6 9.5

to skin

10 2.7

Surface Forms

skeletonize infinitive

skeletonized past

skeletonized past participle

skeletonizing present participle

skeletonizes third person singular

Morphology

skeletonize = skeleton (transparent) = skeleton + ize

Literal action 'to make into a skeleton' is directly formed from the noun 'skeleton' plus the productive suffix '-ize'.

Etymology

Skeletonize comes from the word skeleton ('bones') and the ending -ize ('to make'), so to skeletonize an animal or object is to remove the flesh until only the bones remain.