skeletonize

Etymology

skeleton + -ize

verb

  1. 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

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