To reduce to skeletal form. Can involve; peeling flesh from the bone, result of decomposition(at a very
advanced, or final stage of
disintegration) or in the case of plants and leaves: Usually larva eating
the leaf, only leaving the outline; sketch; skeleton.
The remains of what once were a man, was found skeletonized, as a result of
infestation by beetles and larva; maggots, and of undergoing several stages of
advanced decomposition, of which the final procedure of such, had left
the body without flesh, skin or organs.
-Larva had skeletonized half of the vinyard, severely reducing profits.