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                    Skeletonizing
                    
                        
                
                                                                    Skeletonize \Skel"e*ton*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
    Skeletonized; p. pr. & vb. n.  Skeletonizing.]
   To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its
   skeleton. 
--Pop. Sci. Monthly.
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                    skeletonizing
                    
                        
                
                                                                    vb. (present participle of skeletonize English)
Usage examples of "skeletonizing".
The chain's methodical skeletonizing of its newsrooms affected even Emma's career trajectory.