boned

Definition of bonednext
past tense of bone

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for boned
Verb
  • Hulu set the mood for the evening when two dozen young women, dressed in their Gilead wife-training school’s purple uniforms, walked in solemn unison down the carpet, each carrying a small pie and boarding a bus with curtains covering the windows.
    Alex Cramer, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • It’s been very exciting, seeing everyone at conventions dressed as me in my outfits.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, officials said he was moved to a mobile home in Dania Beach that was owned by an associate of Shlafman while the condo was cleaned and remodeled, and ID Investors paid $20,000 to stop foreclosure on the Hollywood property, the affidavit said.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But many tech firms have cleaned house following the hiring craze.
    Jake Angelo, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • There may be a creative ceiling to watching scores of nameless inmates get inventively eviscerated, but thanks to its 11-minute segments, the ultraviolent comedy flies by.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The match finished 5-1 to the visitors, who eviscerated Leeds in a second half which exposed their glass jaw and Championship fate.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath.
    María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Florida recently disemboweled college-level sociology textbooks.
    Megan Thiele Strong, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Instead of programming every step, the researchers simply let these dynamics unfold and then extracted useful information from the outcome.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Defense attorneys had lined up a Texas lab regarded as one of the most respected in the nation, with the head of that lab testifying that the testing and analysis of any DNA that could be extracted would take two weeks or less.
    Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Boned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boned. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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