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skeletoning

skeletoning is the present participle and gerund of skeleton.

Meaning of skeleton

Verb

skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
  2. (archaic, transitive) To minimize.

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Questions about skeletoning

What is skeletoning the present participle and gerund of?
Skeletoning is the present participle and gerund of skeleton.

Words near skeletoning in the dictionary

  1. skeleton watches
  2. skeletoned
  3. skeletoneer
  4. skeletoneers
  5. skeletonic
  6. skeletoning
  7. skeletonisation
  8. skeletonisations
  9. skeletonise
  10. skeletonised
  11. skeletoniser

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