plural skulls
1
: the skeleton of the head of a vertebrate forming a bony or cartilaginous case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
2
: the seat of understanding or intelligence : mind see also out of one's skull
skulled
adjective
… the craniate (skulled) vertebrates …
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— usually used in combinationlarge-skulled
skulled; skulling; skulls
1
: to hit on the head
2
: to unintentionally hit (a golf ball or shot) with the bottom edge of the clubface
Examples of skull in a Sentence
Noun
He had a fractured skull.
paleoanthropologists recently found the skull of a prehistoric man in a remote area of the desert
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Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Her 2-month-old son and 16-month-old daughter were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia, where the newborn was being treated for a skull fracture and the toddler a large hematoma on her skull.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
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Noun
Tucker, a junior at Brookville High School, received medical attention and was diagnosed as having suffered a concussion and a possible skull fracture.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 10 Mar. 2025
Her 2-month-old son and 16-month-old daughter were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia, where the newborn was being treated for a skull fracture and the toddler a large hematoma on her skull.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 10 Mar. 2025
Verb
And, most incredibly, not after skulling a bunker shot on the par-5 14th, then hacking out to 30 feet.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 13 June 2019
The ball was sitting on such tight grass that he easily could have chunked or skulled it.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 17 June 2019
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“Skull.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skull. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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skull
noun
: the skeleton of the head forming a bony case that encloses and protects the brain and chief sense organs and supports the jaws
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