Converse of object

• scream: A screaming skull resides at Bettiscombe manor, which in legend cannot be removed from the house.

• smash: A well aimed kick from them can smash the skull of a hunting dog or inflict serious injury on a lion.

• crush: His daughter, her skull crushed, lay on a table behind the closed doors across the hall.

• penetrate: As the needle penetrates the skull, complications affecting the brain may arise.

• crack: Recently he had had an injury playing football that included a cracked skull.

• decorate: Developed an interest in burial practices and human remains, through the decorated skulls and floor burials common in the area.

Adjective modifier

• fractured: He has a fractured skull, " Spock replied.

• shattered: He faces further surgery to repair his shattered skull.

• intact: They directed that bovine head meat had to be recovered from the intact skull before the brain was removed.

• thick: Unfortunately it doesn't explain why some people have thicker skulls than the rest of us.

• human: About halfway up the ladder route a human skull was noticed on a ledge.

• fossil: The monster is depicted in a manner clearly based on a fossil skull.

Modifies a noun

• fracture: Skull fracture Meningitis can be a serious complication following a skull fracture.

• crusher: You can switch to the skull crushers, but do it with a barbell so you don't have each arm working independently.

• cap: No skull caps should be seen on the cream of our youth.

• fragment: The presence of human skull fragments would suggest that this deposit was either not entirely of domestic refuse or, of heterogenous origin.

• x-ray: Skull X-Rays All head injured patients had plain skull X-rays performed on admission to hospital.

• X-ray: The first tests were just routine, urine samples, blood tests, chest and skull X-rays which took most of the day.

Noun used with modifier

• crystal: I was very much tempted by a large, almost life-size, crystal skull.

• syndrome: The width of a Down's syndrome skull is nearly normal for that age.