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de- +‎ bone

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˈbəʊn/
  • (file)

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debone (third-person singular simple present debones, present participle deboning, simple past and past participle deboned)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove the bones from.
    I am deboning a fish.
    • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Down it went on the counter, for patient bone removal that would last him a whole day. Frank had done an awful lot of deboning in his life
    Synonyms: bone, unbone

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