boned

verb

past tense of bone
as in dressed

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
  1. dressed
  2. cleaned
  3. eviscerated
  4. disemboweled
  5. extracted
Verb
  • Video shared online allegedly shows the suspect dressed in a clown costume near where the body was found, according to ABC News Chicago station WLS.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • After all, getting dressed on vacation should feel different from getting dressed at home.
    — Chaise Sanders, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of dressed
Verb
  • At present, most satellite data is sent back to Earth before it is cleaned, sorted and analyzed.
    — Martin Halliwell, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Dryer Lint Screen The lint trap or screen in your dryer should be cleaned on a regular basis.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • The day before, 22-year-old Jan Ullrich had eviscerated his opponents in a 55km time trial in and around Saint-Etienne.
    — Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Book review sections are evaporating; NPR has been eviscerated; and social media followings no longer seem to be reliably converting into book sales.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of eviscerated
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  • Self, who was also 25, was later found by his neighbor nearly disemboweled.
    — Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 June 2026
  • Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.
    — María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
Definition of disemboweled
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  • Keys and constants that can be extracted from public firmware can be used to authenticate to, or decrypt traffic from, BMCs.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • One draws on samples drawn from a different area; the other uses stool samples extracted in different years.
    — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracted
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