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Verb: skeletonize
  1. To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton
    "One should skeletonize widely over the upper cartilaginous vault when nasal shortening is necessary"
    - skeletonise [Brit]

Derived forms: skeletonizes, skeletonized, skeletonizing

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