sharpen+on+a+hone
21sharpen — verb (sharpened; sharpening) Date: 15th century transitive verb to make sharp or sharper; especially hone intransitive verb to become sharp or sharper • sharpener noun …
22sharpen — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, aculeate, acuminate, agent provocateur, aggravate, amplify, animate, annoy, augment, barb, beef up, blow up, build up, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, cultivate, cuspidate, deepen,… …
23hone — həʊn n. stone for sharpening tools, whetstone v. sharpen the edge of a tool …
24hone — verb sharpen with a whetstone. ↘make sharper or more focused or efficient. noun a whetstone. Origin ME: from OE hān stone , of Gmc origin …
25hone — n 1. whetstone, grindstone, grinding wheel, emery wheel; rasp, file, nail file, razor strap, abrasive. v 2. whet, grind, rasp, file, abrade; sharpen, edge, put an edge on …
26sharpen — v put an edge on, make keen, acuminate; point, tip, hone, strop, whet, file, grind, taper …
27sharpen — verb Syn: hone, whet, strop, grind, file …
28home / hone — Home in is the correct phrase here is when referring to getting closer to a goal or target: The missile homed in electronically on the target. Hone means to sharpen : Denise made a resolution to hone her piano playing skills …
29home / hone — Home in is the correct phrase here is when referring to getting closer to a goal or target: The missile homed in electronically on the target. Hone means to sharpen : Denise made a resolution to hone her piano playing skills …
30home, hone — But Milosevic, ever the master tactician, had honed in on one of the Tribunals shakiest stanchions (New Yorker). Hone means to sharpen (as in honing a knife) or, more rarely, to complain or yearn for. The term for seeking out a target, as in… …
