How to pronounce skeletons

Noun

• something reduced to its minimal form

  “the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self”

  “the bare skeleton of a novel”

  Synonyms: skeleton

• a scandal that is kept secret

  “there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet”

  Synonyms: skeletonskeleton in the closetskeleton in the cupboard

• the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

  Synonyms: skeletal systemskeletonframe

• the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

  “the building has a steel skeleton”

  Synonyms: skeletonskeletal frameframe