Make leaner, as meat

• Make healthier, in a way
• Remove richness, as from milk
• Trim a steak, for example
• Prepare, as chicken stock
• Trim, as a T-bone
• Prepare, as chicken stock for soup
• Skim the cream off the top, e.g
• Skim off grease
• Skim off grease from

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To remove fat from a material, especially by the use of solvents