esqueletizar

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eskeletiˈθaɾ/ [es.ke.le.t̪iˈθaɾ] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /eskeletiˈsaɾ/ [es.ke.le.t̪iˈsaɾ] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: es‧que‧le‧ti‧zar

Verb

esqueletizar (first-person singular present esqueletizo, first-person singular preterite esqueleticé, past participle esqueletizado)

  1. To turn into a skeleton, skeletonize
    • 2009, Israel David Lara Barajas, Fundamentos de Antropología Forense:
      El resto del cuerpo se descompuso y esqueletizó dentro del túnel.
      The rest of the body decomposed and turned into a skeleton in the tunnel.

Further reading

  • Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “esqueletizar”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
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