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skeletalize

skeletalize verb: to reduce to a bare or skeletal form.

Verb

skeletalize (third-person singular simple present skeletalizes, present participle skeletalizing, simple past and past participle skeletalized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to a bare or skeletal form.

Forms of skeletalize

third-person singular presentskeletalizes
present participleskeletalizing
past participleskeletalized
pastskeletalized

Origin of skeletalize

From skeletal + -ize.

Questions about skeletalize

What does skeletalize mean?
Skeletalize means to reduce to a bare or skeletal form.
What part of speech is skeletalize?
Skeletalize is a verb.
What is the past tense of skeletalize?
The past tense of skeletalize is skeletalized.

Words near skeletalize in the dictionary

  1. skeletal muscle
  2. skeletal muscles
  3. skeletalism
  4. skeletality
  5. skeletalization
  6. skeletalize
  7. skeletalized
  8. skeletalizes
  9. skeletalizing
  10. skeletally
  11. skeleto-

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