skeletonize

To reduce to skeleton form.

To outline or sketch briefly.

To reduce in size or number.

To reduce to a skeleton, as by removing the flesh or other soft tissues from the framework; make a skeleton or mere framework of or from: as, to skeletonize a leaf by eating out its soft parts, as an insect, or by removing them by maceration: particularly said of the preparation of skeletons as objects of study.

Milit., to reduce the size or numbers of; deplete: as, a skeletonized army.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.

To reduce to a skeleton.