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skeleton

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"

a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"

something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

Synonyms:

• abbreviation,
• abbreviature,
• abrege,
• abridgment,
• abstract,
• adumbrate,
• anatomy,
• appendicular skeleton,
• ashes,
• axial skeleton,
• backing,
• barebones,
• bean pole,
• beanstalk,
• bearing,
• block out,
• blueprint,
• body,
• bones,
• brief,
• broomstick,
• brouillon,
• bushing,
• cadaver,
• cadre,
• capsule,
• carcass,
• carrion,
• cartoon,
• case,
• casement,
• casing,
• chalk,
• chart,
• chassis,
• clay,
• clothes pole,
• compend,
• condensation,
• condensed version,
• configuration,
• conspectus,
• contour,
• copy,
• corpse,
• corpus delicti,
• crowbait,
• dead body,
• dead man,
• dead person,
• decedent,
• delineation,
• design,
• diagram,
• digest,
• doorframe,
• draft,
• drawing,
• dry bones,
• dust,
• earth,
• ebauche,
• elevation,
• embalmed corpse,
• epitome,
• esquisse,
• exoskeleton,
• fabric,
• features,
• figuration,
• figure,
• food for worms,
• frame,
• framework,
• framing,
• gestalt,
• graph,
• ground plan,
• gruel,
• head,
• house plan,
• hulk,
• ichnography,
• infrastructure,
• lanky,
• late lamented,
• lath,
• lattice,
• latticework,
• lineaments,
• lines,
• main features,
• mere shadow,
• mere wreck,
• mortal remains,
• mount,
• mounting,
• mummification,
• mummy,
• nervous wreck,
• organic remains,
• outline,
• overview,
• pandect,
• paper,
• pattern,
• picture frame,
• plot,
• precis,
• profile,
• projection,
• rail,
• rake,
• rattlebones,
• rattletrap,
• relics,
• relief,
• reliquiae,
• remains,
• review,
• rough,
• rubric,
• ruin,
• ruins,
• sash,
• setting,
• shadow,
• shapes,
• shaving,
• shell,
• shortened version,
• silhouette,
• skeletal,
• sketch,
• slat,
• slim,
• slip,
• soup,
• spindlelegs,
• spindleshanks,
• splinter,
• stack of bones,
• stiff,
• stilt,
• streak,
• survey,
• syllabus,
• synopsis,
• table,
• tenement of clay,
• the dead,
• the deceased,
• the defunct,
• the departed,
• the loved one,
• thumbnail sketch,
• topical outline,
• tournure,
• twiggy,
• underframe,
• vein,
• wafer,
• walking skeleton,
• window case,
• window frame,
• working drawing,
• wreck