boned

past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • The cover image isn't the only instance where the couple is dressed in coordinating looks.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • For makeup, the artist dressed Kardashian’s face with bubblegum pink blush and and dusty pink shadow.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto stayed back and cleaned the team's dugout after pitching a complete game and 105 pitches in World Series Game 2.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Desrivieres cleaned it up with a shot that was helped in with the right-side post to put Boston International (15-0-2) up 1-0 in the 24th minute.
    Brian Roach, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Between the black skeletons of still-standing trees, black burn holes showed where the root systems of others had been eviscerated.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has eviscerated the Office for Civil Rights, the avenue through which Jewish students once pursued legal protection.
    James Druckman, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Climatologists now know that volcanic dust was beginning to fall out of the atmosphere at that point, but marine sediments, tree rings, and other evidence extracted from archives of nature suggest that Arctic temperatures had not recovered.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Emergency responders extracted him from the vehicle and transported him to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, where he was pronounced dead.
    Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 25 Oct. 2025
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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