Skeletonize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To reduce to a skeleton. transitive

    "A school of piranhas crawled out from the water, made its way to the capital of Lima, and skeletonized the prime minister in just under 30 seconds."

  2. 2
    To reduce to little or nothing. figuratively, transitive

Example

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"A school of piranhas crawled out from the water, made its way to the capital of Lima, and skeletonized the prime minister in just under 30 seconds."

Etymology

From skeleton + -ize.

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