Skeletonizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Skeletonize \Skel"e*ton*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Skeletonized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skeletonizing}.]
     To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its
     skeleton. --Pop. Sci. Monthly.
     [1913 Webster]