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Antonyms for bone
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  1. bone, osnoun

    rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

    Antonyms:
    boneless

    Synonyms:
    atomic number 76, off-white, operating system, oculus sinister, ivory, osmium, pearl, os, osseous tissue

  2. bone, osseous tissuenoun

    the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

    Antonyms:
    boneless

    Synonyms:
    off-white, os, pearl, ivory, osseous tissue

  3. bone, ivory, pearl, off-whiteadjective

    a shade of white the color of bleached bones

    Antonyms:
    boneless

    Synonyms:
    drop, off-white, ivory, bead, pearl, os, osseous tissue, tusk

  4. boneverb

    consisting of or made up of bone

    "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"

    Antonyms:
    boneless

  5. cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, boneverb

    study intensively, as before an exam

    "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

    Antonyms:
    boneless

    Synonyms:
    prink, rise, prepare, stand up, bone up, ram, fancy up, deck out, elevate, uprise, jam, trick up, rig out, tog up, grind away, lift, deck up, drum, arise, swot up, gussy up, mug up, attire, dress up, swot, tog out, organise, beat, thrum, chock up, wad, raise, work up, trick out, get up, turn out, cram, bring up, devise, fig out, organize, jampack, overdress, debone, machinate, fig up

  6. bone, deboneverb

    remove the bones from

    "bone the turkey before roasting it"

    Antonyms:
    boneless

    Synonyms:
    grind away, cram, mug up, swot up, get up, bone up, debone, drum, swot

How to use bone in a sentence?

  1. Joshua Hare:

    When the animal started to produce more bone, it also turned on a pathway that created other cells to eat some of the bone, so we haven’t perfected the way that this would be used clinically.

  2. Christophe Snoeck:

    When it comes to light chemical elements( such as carbon and oxygen), these are heavily altered but for heavier elements such as strontium no alteration was observed, on the contrary, thanks to the high temperatures reached, the structure of the bone is modified and making the bone resistant to post-mortem exchanges with burial soil.

  3. Caroline Wozniacki:

    I had my ankle injury and broke two ligaments, my foot kind of went out of its socket. I was trying to slide on a clay court at full speed, and it just got stuck. I was actually wearing a brace, and the next day the doctor told me if I hadn’t been, my bone would probably have been sticking out of my foot. It was excruciating.

  4. Jonathan Arden:

    If, hypothetically, the hyoid bone is broken, that would generally raise questions about strangulation, but it is not definitive and does not exclude suicidal hanging.

  5. Elissa Slotkin:

    Having the sitting President of the United States, use leverage over a foreign leader to get dirt on an opponent, that very basic idea, I think cut for us, as national security people, just close to the bone.

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