skeletal, adj.
freq. cnt. 13
freq. cnt. 13
of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton
<adj.pert> freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 13
skeletal
sample sentences
"the skeletal system""skeletal bones"
"skeletal muscles"
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 9 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
cadaverous emaciated gaunt haggard pinched skeletal wasted
sample sentences
"a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys""eyes were haggard and cavernous"
"small pinched faces"
"kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
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