skeletonizev.
/ˈskɛlɪtənʌɪz/ 1. transitive. To reduce to a skeleton. Also figurative.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > dissection
anatomize?1541
discarve?1541
dissect1611
dissecate1615
skeletonize1644
skeleton1888
1644 J. Taylor No Mercvrivs Avlicvs 7 Thus.. I have anatomized and skellitonized your railing Pamphlet.
1720 W. Stukeley in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 32 I likewise sceletonisd several different sorts of birds.
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 488/1 I would propose that the bodies..should be made skeletons, and plac'd in..his own proper chaise, which shall be first skeletoniz'd by a coachmaker.
1807 P. Gass Jrnls. 246 Captain Lewis had four of those animals skeletonized.
1865 Parrish (title) The Phantom Bouquet: a popular treatise on the art of skeletonizing leaves and seed vessels.
1885 W. T. Hornaday Two Years in Jungle v. 51 We skinned and skeletonized many a gavial and large bird.
2. To draw up in outline; to sketch out.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > follow occupation of writer [verb (intransitive)] > plan
skeletonize1865
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > draw up plan of composition
laya1616
skeletonize1865
skeleton1880
1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 128 We but skeletonize an unknown and unknowable cause in the form of some of its effects.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel (ed. 2) I. 75 Long before Simeon was skeletonising our sermons.
3. intransitive. To become a skeleton.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > slim [verb (intransitive)] > thin
leanc897
relank1545
emaciate1646
to fall off1710
excarnate1735
skeletonize1831
thin1870
skinny1939
the world > life > the body > dead body > [verb (intransitive)] > become a skeleton
skeletonize1879
1831 Lincoln Herald 23 Dec. 3/6 Are our shipwrights skeletonising on air?
1879 Scribner's Monthly 19 182 His brethren gathered to bear him down, And lay him away to skeletonize.
Derivatives
ˌskeletoniˈzation n. reduction to a skeleton.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > slim shape or physique > [noun] > becoming
skeletonization1795
1795 R. Southey Let. 23 Oct. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 252 Perhaps the climate may agree with me, and counteract a certain habit of skeletonisation.
ˈskeletonized adj. reduced to a skeleton; drawn up in outline; also, possessing or having developed a skeleton.
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the world > life > the body > dead body > [adjective] > reduced to a skeleton
skeletonized1834
skeletoned1850
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > drawn up in outline
skeletonian1801
skeleton1802
skeletonized1834
the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adjective]
atomizeda1628
skeleton1811
skeletal1854
skeletonian1879
skeletonic1880
skeletonized1976
1834 Gentleman's Mag. 104 i. 185 The skeletonized Death, with all the animation of a living person.
1857 Taylor Hist. Antiq. Cupar 17 The Revolution consigned the skeletonised remains to their present resting place.
1885 P. Perring Hard Knots 215 Yet have we here..a skeletonized sentence, or rather a succession of skeletonized sentences.
1976 Nature 29 Jan. 271/1 Some 500 million years ago..all but two of the living phyla that are well skeletonised had already appeared.
1978 Sci. Amer. Sept. 108/1 These durable skeletonized invertebrates seem to have one thing in common: they all originally lived on the sea floor rather than burrowing in it.
ˈskeletonizer n. an insect which reduces leaves to a skeleton.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > that reduces leaves to skeleton
skeletonizer1891
1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) The apple-leaf skeletonizer, Pempelia hammondi.
ˈskeletonizing n. (also attributive).
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > dissection
anatomy?1541
anatoming1580
anatomizing1594
dissection1605
dissecation1633
Comparative Anatomy1675
anatomization1676
necrotomy1839
phytotomy1844
skeletonizing1869
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > [noun] > action or practice of composing > outlining
skeletonizing1869
1869 W. G. T. Shedd Homiletics viii. 186 (note) Skeletonizing is to sermonizing what drawing is to painting.
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) i. 48 Complete skeletonizing of a bird is a special art of some difficulty.
1885 Athenæum 14 Nov. 640/2 Observations as to definite layers [in leaves] and the relation of these to the skeletonizing process.
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