skeletonize
verb (used with object)
to reduce to a skeleton, outline, or framework.
skeletonise
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a variation of
skeletonize.
Example Sentences
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With regard to his pigeons, Darwin wrote, in November 1855: "I love them to that extent that I cannot bear to kill and skeletonise them."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
