Dictionary

debone en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /diːˈbəʊn/ (UK)
• /diˈboʊn/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-der. Proto-Germanic *bainaz Proto-Germanic *bainą Proto-West Germanic *bain Old English bān Middle English bon English bone English debone From de- + bone.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To remove the bones from.
   • I am deboning a fish.
   • Down it went on the counter, for patient bone removal that would last him a whole day. Frank had done an awful lot of deboning in his life 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:

Forms

Coordinates

gut · skin · pluck

Deriveds

deboner

Hypernyms

prepare

Relateds

boneless

Synonyms

unbone · bone

Translations (18)

cmn 去骨 (remove the bones from something) · es deshuesar (remove the bones from something) · ga díchnámhaigh (remove the bones from something) · is úrbeina (remove the bones from something) · sv bena (remove the bones from something) · mi mākiri (remove the bones from something) · cs vykostit (remove the bones from something) · pl filetować (remove the bones from something) · bg обезкостявам (remove the bones from something) · ca desossar (remove the bones from something) · la exossō (remove the bones from something) · pt desossar (remove the bones from something) · fr désosser (remove the bones from something) · de entbeinen (remove the bones from something) · mk обескостува (remove the bones from something) · gl desosar (remove the bones from something) · mi kokoki (remove the bones from something) · cmn 剔骨 (remove the bones from something)