Antonym: flesh. Similar words: bond, bonus, carbon, ribbon, bona fide, a bone of contention. Meaning: [bəʊn] 
n. 1. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates 2. the porous calcified substance from which bones are made 3. a shade of white the color of bleached bones. v. 1. study intensively, as before an exam 2. remove the bones from. adj. consisting of or made up of bone.
n. 1. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates 2. the porous calcified substance from which bones are made 3. a shade of white the color of bleached bones. v. 1. study intensively, as before an exam 2. remove the bones from. adj. consisting of or made up of bone. 151. A dog lay under the table, gnawing on a bone.
152. Staffing levels had already been cut to the bone .
153. We went to build a snowman but before it was half finished I was frozen to the bone.
154. The dog was digging a hole to hide its bone in.
155. The body is made up primarily of bone, muscle, and fat.
156. The technique involves grafting a very thin slice of bone onto the damaged knee.
157. The two edges of that broken bone will knit together smoothly.
158. A child was wrongly diagnosed as having a bone tumour.
159. Some of the sex scenes in the play were judged by critics to be too close to the bone.
160. Don't throw one bone to two dogs; you'll only provoke a fight.
161. They X-rayed her leg to find out if the bone was broken.
162. Their annual budget has already been pared to the bone.
163. The border has always been a bone of contention between these two countries.
164. The surgeon cut through connective tissue to expose the bone.
165. He chipped a bone in his knee and was carried off the pitch.
166. I must bone up on my French before we go to Paris.
167. The bullet lodged in the sergeant's leg,[Sentence dictionary] shattering his thigh bone.