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#1 skeletal a. of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles". wn
#2 skeletal s. [bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration". wn
#2 skeletal s. [bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, wasted] very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration". wn
