What is another word for "skeleton"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "skeleton": anatomy, and, angustation, ashes, bone, breadth, cadaver, cadaverous, carcass, carrion, clay, closeness, coarctation, coil, constriction, contraction, corpse, corse, defunct, deposition, dry, dust, earth, emaciation, exiguity, exility, filament, food, for, ghat, ghaut, ghost, hourglass, isthmus, lantern, line, little, macilency, manes, marcor.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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