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deboned

  • past participle
    of debone.
    debone
    verb (used with object)
    to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone.
  • past tense form
    of debone.
    debone
    verb (used with object)
    to remove the bones from (meat, fish, or fowl); bone.

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Eaton uses a carefully sourced heritage breed bird that’s brined, deboned and served in butter for $35.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Tip: Your fish should be cleaned and gutted but not deboned.

From Seattle Times Jan. 7, 2024

"The dish is often served with cotechino, a spicy pork sausage, and zampone, a deboned pig trotter stuffed with sausage meat."

From Salon Dec. 29, 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

“They’re butcher’s hands” offered Dario Cecchini, an eighth-generation butcher in Tuscany, where DiLiegro has deboned cattle pretty much every summer since 2016.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2022

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