skeletonise
/ˈskɛlətənaɪz/
verb
- To reduce something to its basic or essential parts, removing all unnecessary details.
- In the workshop, they taught us how to skeletonise a complex idea for a presentation.
- The editor had to skeletonise the long report into a one-page summary.
- The director decided to skeletonise the script to focus only on the main plot.
- To remove the flesh from a dead body, leaving only the bones.
- The beetles were used to carefully skeletonise the small animal for the museum collection.
- In forensic science, students learn how to skeletonise a specimen for study.
- The ancient ritual involved allowing the sun to skeletonise the remains.
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