Antonyms for
bone
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
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All Definitions for Bone

Below are all the dictionary definitions of bone:

1A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
3A bone of a fish
4A fishbone.
5An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
6One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
7Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
9To have sexual intercourse (with).
10A bonefish.
11A dollar.
12The wishbone formation.
13A domino or die.
14A cannabis cigarette
15A joint.
16The framework of anything.
17Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
18To make level, using a particular procedure
19To survey a level line.
20To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
21To study.
22To polish boots to a shiny finish.
23To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
24One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
25To apprehend, steal.
26An erect penis
27A boner.
28A reward.
29To put whalebone into.
30To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
31To fertilize with bone.
32Used before an adjective as an intensifier
33A surname.
34An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
35Clipping of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]

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