skeletonize
English
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[edit]skeletonize (third-person singular simple present skeletonizes, present participle skeletonizing, simple past and past participle skeletonized)
- (transitive) To reduce to a skeleton.
- 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 8:
- 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.
- (transitive, figuratively) To reduce to little or nothing.