Synonyms for bone
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1. bone, osnoun

   rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

   Synonyms:
   atomic number 76, off-white, operating system, oculus sinister, ivory, osmium, pearl, os, osseous tissue

   Antonyms:
   boneless

2. bone, osseous tissuenoun

   the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

   Synonyms:
   off-white, os, pearl, ivory, osseous tissue

   Antonyms:
   boneless

3. bone, ivory, pearl, off-whiteadjective

   a shade of white the color of bleached bones

   Synonyms:
   drop, off-white, ivory, bead, pearl, os, osseous tissue, tusk

   Antonyms:
   boneless

4. boneverb

   consisting of or made up of bone

   "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"

   Antonyms:
   boneless

5. cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, boneverb

   study intensively, as before an exam

   "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

   Synonyms:
   prink, rise, prepare, stand up, bone up, ram, fancy up, deck out, elevate, uprise, jam, trick up, rig out, tog up, grind away, lift, deck up, drum, arise, swot up, gussy up, mug up, attire, dress up, swot, tog out, organise, beat, thrum, chock up, wad, raise, work up, trick out, get up, turn out, cram, bring up, devise, fig out, organize, jampack, overdress, debone, machinate, fig up

   Antonyms:
   boneless

6. bone, deboneverb

   remove the bones from

   "bone the turkey before roasting it"

   Synonyms:
   grind away, cram, mug up, swot up, get up, bone up, debone, drum, swot

   Antonyms:
   boneless

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1. vertebra

   a bone from the spine

   the animal has a meter wide bone.

   Submitted by rinat on November 22, 2015  

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1. bonenoun

   Synonyms:
   (little) ossicle, osselet

2. bonenoun

   Associated words:
   osteology, osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ossifying, ostalgia, ossifragous, skeleton

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1. List of paraphrases for "bone":

   bony, bones, hueso, marrow, apple, knob, longnose, skeletal, acrylic

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1. List of known nicknames for "Bone":

   Bone Hampton, Vernard 'Bone' Hampton, Comedian Bone

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1. Cary Woodruff:

   Previously, we could only really speculate, we could tell that a bone had broken and healed, but we had no idea of what caused the break. While that can certainly still be the case today, the more we approach these pathologies from a differential diagnosis perspective, and importantly, the more we work with medical professionals, the greater our identification accuracy is.

2. Maureen Nemetski:

   I drilled a hole into her shin bone and placed an intraosseous line -- a bone catheter -- so that we could inject platelets and medications into her blood through her bone marrow. I can not imagine her parents' horror on hearing the crack of the drill bit into their baby's leg, we took turns pounding on this baby's chest and trying to pump air into lungs that had filled with blood.

3. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi:

   Her friend suffered a broken bone in her face. Brutal beating.

4. Cedric Richmond:

   I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body, steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

5. Cory Booker:

   I still remember my first month on the street, i walked up to this charismatic Black guy my age called T-Bone, who was one of the drug lords. I said, 'Yo, man, what's up?' And he leaped up and for me, looked me right in the eye and said, 'Who the blank do you think you are? If you ever so much as, look at me again, I'm going to put a cap in your a--.