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Antonyms for bone
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bone, osnoun
rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
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bonelessSynonyms:
atomic number 76, off-white, operating system, oculus sinister, ivory, osmium, pearl, os, osseous tissuebone, osseous tissuenoun
the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
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bonelessSynonyms:
off-white, os, pearl, ivory, osseous tissuebone, ivory, pearl, off-whiteadjective
a shade of white the color of bleached bones
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bonelessSynonyms:
drop, off-white, ivory, bead, pearl, os, osseous tissue, tuskboneverb
consisting of or made up of bone
"a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"
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bonelesscram, 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"
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bonelessSynonyms:
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 upbone, deboneverb
remove the bones from
"bone the turkey before roasting it"
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bonelessSynonyms:
grind away, cram, mug up, swot up, get up, bone up, debone, drum, swot
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
bonenoun
Synonyms:
(little) ossicle, osseletbonenoun
Associated words:
osteology, osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ossifragous, skeleton
How to use bone in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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