Synonyms for skull
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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium

2. skullnoun

   To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

   Synonyms:
   cranium

3. skullnoun

   A symbol for death; death's-head

   Synonyms:
   cranium

Princeton's WordNet

1. skullnoun

   the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

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1. • Bone

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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium, brain-pan

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1. skullnoun

   Synonyms:
   cranium, death's-head

   Associated words:
   cranial, acrania, acranial, craniology, phrenology, trepan, trephine, fontanel, sphenoid, cephalism, parietes, parietal, crossbones, occiput, frontal, sinciput

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1. List of paraphrases for "skull":

   cranium, head, crane, scalp, skeleton, sake, brain

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1. Vassilis Koliatsos:

   We typically think of traumatic brain injury as something that happens when an external force comes against your skull.

2. Francis Conidi:

   It’s really the angular and rotational mechanism of the skull that causes the tearing of brain cells, which causes the ion cells to leak out.

3. Jennifer Conti:

   It's this exact reason that it's nonsensical to legislate these cases : Nobody arrives at the decision to have an abortion after 24 weeks carelessly, rather, it's the rare case of rapidly decompensating maternal heart disease or a delayed diagnosis of anencephaly, where the fetus forms without a complete brain or skull, that bring people to these decisions.

4. Mike Everhart:

   Whether it is hundreds or thousands of years old, the skull gives us a better insight into the richness of life on the plains before Western man.

5. Mark Pollock:

   I fractured my skull, broke my back and the damage to my spinal cord left me paralyzed from the waist down, at the time, people who found me lying on the concrete thought I was dead. Even doctors predicted I was going to die.