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unboned

unboned is the simple past and past participle of unbone.

Meaning of unbone

Verb

unbone (third-person singular simple present unbones, present participle unboning, simple past and past participle unboned)

  1. To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
  2. (obsolete) To twist about, as if boneless.
    • writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC

Adjective

unboned (not comparable)

  1. Not having had the bones removed.
    • Near-synonym: bone-in
    • an unboned chicken
    Synonyms:
    bone-in
    Antonyms:
    boned, deboned, boneless

Synonyms of unboned

Antonyms

Questions about unboned

What does unboned mean?
Unboned means not having had the bones removed.
What is unboned the simple past and past participle of?
Unboned is the simple past and past participle of unbone.
What part of speech is unboned?
Unboned is an adjective.

Words near unboned in the dictionary

  1. unbombasts
  2. unbombed
  3. unbondable
  4. unbonded
  5. unbone
  6. unboned
  7. unbones
  8. unboning
  9. unbonnet
  10. unbonneted
  11. unbonneting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unboned (page history and authors); unbone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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