debone
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debone (third-person singular simple present debones, present participle deboning, simple past and past participle deboned)
- (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
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remove the bones from something