• Synonyms: skeleton, skeletal_frame, frame, underframe
  Meaning: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"
• Synonyms: skeletal_system, skeleton, frame, systema_skeletale
  Meaning: the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
• Synonyms: skeleton, skeleton_in_the_closet, skeleton_in_the_cupboard
  Meaning: a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
• Synonyms: skeleton
  Meaning: something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

• Stripped to its bare skeleton
• On his skeleton features there came a look of panic fear.
• Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.
• "Had they forced his winder?--had they took a skeleton key to his door?--had they come down the chimbley?
• Tall tree, Spy-glass shoulder, bearing a point to the N. of N.N.E. Skeleton Island E.S.E. and by E. Ten feet.
• How they all wept over him--reduced almost to a skeleton, so wan, so weak, so aged, in those few short months.
• "Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton."
• "My, but I'll bet Chunky is a walking skeleton by this time," smiled Tad, as the thought of his companion's appetite came humorously into his mind.
• "There are three 'tall trees'" said he, "about in the right line from Skeleton Island. 'Spy-glass shoulder,' I take it, means that lower p'int there.
• We brought up just where the anchor was in the chart, about a third of a mile from each shore, the mainland on one side and Skeleton Island on the other.

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Bird, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Namibia, License CC BY-SA 4.0