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skeletonized

skeletonized is the simple past and past participle of skeletonize.

Meaning of skeletonize

Verb

skeletonize (third-person singular simple present skeletonizes, present participle skeletonizing, simple past and past participle skeletonized)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to a skeleton.
    • 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.2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 8
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To reduce to little or nothing.
  3. (transitive) To reduce weight by creating cutouts and using less material.

Adjective

skeletonized (comparative more skeletonized, superlative most skeletonized)

  1. Reduced to a skeleton.
    • The typical stereotype of a school of piranhas is that they might leave a skeletonized cow or person in their wake.
    • Gary Larson, creator of "The Far Side" cartoon strip, observes that anytime piranhas are mentioned, a benchmark that is always referenced is how fast they can skeletonize a cow. Unfortunately for network managers, whenever LANs are mentioned, there is no one measure or benchmark of performance that...1990 September 10, Salvatore Salamone, “The need for LAN benchmarks. Without standardized measures, network users can't easily tell what aspects of LAN performance to measure”, in Network World. The...
    Antonyms:
    flesh out

Antonyms of skeletonized

Forms of skeletonized

comparativemore skeletonized
superlativemost skeletonized

Words formed from skeletonized

Questions about skeletonized

What does skeletonized mean?
Skeletonized means reduced to a skeleton.
What is skeletonized the simple past and past participle of?
Skeletonized is the simple past and past participle of skeletonize.
What part of speech is skeletonized?
Skeletonized is an adjective.

Words near skeletonized in the dictionary

  1. skeletonises
  2. skeletonising
  3. skeletonization
  4. skeletonizations
  5. skeletonize
  6. skeletonized
  7. skeletonizer
  8. skeletonizers
  9. skeletonizes
  10. skeletonizing
  11. skeletonless

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