Skeleton Synonyms & Definitions

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• SkeletonDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
  2. (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
  3. (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
  4. (n.) A very thin or lean person.
  5. (n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
  6. (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

• SkeletonizeDefinition & Meaning in English

  1. (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.

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