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
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  • Messi returned to his native Argentina over the weekend, missing Miami's 2-1 loss to Monterrey on Saturday, but was dressed and on the bench before subbing in for Daniel Pinter at the start of the second half.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dressed in military-style clothing since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of dressed
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  • The company said the hot tub is completely drained, cleaned and refilled with fresh water in between sessions.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The bathroom gets cleaned every day; the keyboard everyone shares does not.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of cleaned
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  • Lasting more than 10 minutes, the image begins eviscerated of scale and depth before slowly recovering a figure-ground relationship — from a smudgy surface to be contemplated to an image of a body moving through a landscape.
    — Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • 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
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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  • Some experts argue for keeping the status quo, saying a ban on selling fossils would mean that important specimens would remain undiscovered or be illegally extracted and sold on the black market.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • After carefully selecting specimens with reliable dates and locations, the team extracted DNA using techniques designed for highly degraded historical samples.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of extracted
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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