What is "skeletonize"

Usage examples of "skeletonize".

He remained motionless for what seemed several minutes, leaning over the skeletonized cadaver.

It stood next to a giant clam, propped open, showing a skeletonized foot inside.

Ten weeks later, you were called to a wooded area one mile east of the York River State Park, where hunters had discovered two partially skeletonized bodies facedown in the leaves, approximately four miles from where Bruce's car had been found ten weeks earlier.

Their partially skeletonized bodies were discovered six months later, during deer season in a wooded area three miles of Route I99 in York County.

In a climate like Virginia's, it generally takes at least a year of being exposed to the elements before a body is fully skeletonized, or reduced to disarticulated bones.

I had not assumed the pattern meant anything because most of the badly decomposed and skeletonized bodied that end up in my office are found by hunters.

It was understandable: with a body that was almost com­pletely skeletonized already, X rays weren’t likely to tell them very much.

A partially skeletonized corpse was discovered under a pile of tires at a dump in Gastonia.

His fingers moved down to caress a lock of hair, then traced the curve of the mandible, past the chin to the crushed rib cage, along the arm bones to the skeletonized hand.

But now in the depths of winter it was a frozen stubble with patches of dirty snow and a few lonely, leafless, skeletonized trees.

The chain's methodical skeletonizing of its newsrooms affected even Emma's career trajectory.

Longarm took the small skeletonized telegraph key he'd had in his kit and rested it on the crossbar as he went to work with his jackknife.