skeletonize
To reduce to a skeleton.
Verb
- To reduce to a skeleton.
- A school of piranhas crawled out from the water, made its way to the capital of Lima, and skeletonized the prime minister in just under 30 seconds. - 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 8:
- To reduce to little or nothing.
Origin
From skeleton + -ize.