boned

past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • The 19-year-old dressed in a light gray suit with a pastel orange neck tie anxiously bounced his legs after Silver announced to the crowd that the Washington Wizards had five minutes to make the first selection.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • At least 11 people dressed in black arrived at the facility late on Independence Day, including some wearing body armor and carrying firearms, the indictment reads.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The pool is being cleaned twice annually, with 10 to 15 large truckloads of debris removed at each cleaning, the National Park Service reports.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 23 June 2026
  • Berlin’s authorities are currently advising people to ensure clothes are thoroughly cleaned after every park visit and to keep windows and doors closed when possible.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
Verb
  • Barton’s work has been eviscerated by scholars, but this has hardly dented his popularity.
    Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
  • Citrus greening has eviscerated Florida’s citrus production over the past two decades.
    Paul Meador, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 June 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • Data was extracted from Action, the case management system used by prosecutors’ offices across the state, and shared by the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council.
    Rebecca Dunlea, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • The material was extracted from coal gangue, which is the ultra-hard, toxic rock waste left behind after mining and washing coal.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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