debone
Americanverb (used with object)
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debones,
present (3rd person singular)
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deboned,
past participle, past
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deboning
present participle
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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debonesimple
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debonessimple
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have debonedperfect
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has debonedperfect
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am deboningprogressive
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are deboningprogressive
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is deboningprogressive
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have been deboningperfect progressive
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has been deboningperfect progressive
Past
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debonedsimple
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had debonedperfect
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was deboningprogressive
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were deboningprogressive
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had been deboningperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of debone
Example Sentences
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By age 6, he recalled, he was helping debone carcasses on the shop floor.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022
The company will increasingly use machines, instead of people, to debone chicken, one of its most labor-intensive jobs and a position with high turnover, said David Bray, group president of Tyson's poultry division.
From Reuters ● Dec. 9, 2021
For those planning to debone the birds themselves, Sammy Herbert said the turkey will be the hardest.
From Fox News ● Nov. 20, 2018
Vegetables, for example, could get contaminated if they’re chopped on a cutting board previously used to, say, debone a chicken.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2017
At the age of 16, Allen Katz tried to debone a rabbit in his family’s kitchen in Baltimore.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2015
The server debones and plates the duck in the shape of a turtle shell, leaving the mahogany skin glistening under a patina of fat.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2019
Wu-Bower slices cilantro while Wu debones pork belly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2019
Our tablemates had purchased a litany of fried options, including scotch eggs from the Quail Inn, which also serves bacon-wrapped jalapeño peppers, cheese fritters and “whole, partially deboned quail.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Halim sued Buffalo Wild Wings months after dining on wings that weren’t actually deboned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
Andrés oversees as cooks prepare the eel for it’s final flourish — deboned, sliced paper thin, dredged in three kinds of flour and then deep dried with cilantro.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2022
My wife loved the bronzino, served whole, deboned and butterflied.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
The dark meat — marinated in oyster sauce, soy and black pepper before roasting — is deboned and layered atop the rice with a poached egg.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2022
Police discovered the defendant had previously been employed as a "skilled butcher", and her work involved "deboning, and portioning out turkey carcasses using a large knife".
From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026
They have resorted to measures from deboning the bird to giving it a deep-tissue massage to stuffing a whole pineapple inside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
Panelo worked at Mutual Fish in the 1980s, one of many cutters filleting and deboning “smelt by the hundreds of pounds,” a fish not many other markets sold at that time.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
Use your chef’s knife for most kitchen work, from chopping onions and garlic to slicing carrots to slicing a roast to deboning a chicken.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
But the plants themselves became hot spots for the virus, as workers stood elbow to elbow chopping, deboning and packing meat and seafood.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 18, 2022
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