debone

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ bone.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːˈbəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

debone (third-person singular simple present debones, present participle deboning, simple past and past participle deboned)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To remove the bones from.

   Synonyms: bone, unbone

   Hypernym: prepare

   Coordinate terms: pluck, gut, skin

   I am deboning a fish.

   • 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Down it went on the counter, for patient bone removal that would last him a whole day. Frank had done an awful lot of deboning in his life

Derived terms

• deboner

 

Related terms

• boneless

 

Translations

remove the bones from something

• Bulgarian: обезкостявам (obezkostjavam)
• Catalan: desossar (ca)
• French: désosser (fr)
• Galician: desosar (gl)
• German: entbeinen (de)
• Icelandic: úrbeina
• Irish: díchnámhaigh
• Latin: exossō
• Maori: mākiri, kokoki
• Spanish: deshuesar (es)
• Swedish: bena (sv)

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