skeletonize

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Before it's zipped shut, Father Flavie checks the tomb to ensure every bit of the skeletonised remains has been removed - even a tiny piece of bone might reveal something more about the shooting.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2024

"I now have this image of a skeletonised sister," she said.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2023

Forensic pathologist Dr Mike Briggs said the body had been "almost completely skeletonised" and he could find no evidence of a stab wound on the bones.

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2019

That it may go on thus we had a direct proof when in spring we sank from the Vega the bodies of animals to be skeletonised by the crustacea that swarmed at the sea-bottom.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882

The subsequent history of these pictures, while too copious for transcription here, may be skeletonised.

From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by Huneker, James