to hone
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4.2
- verb
- /hoʊn/
:
perfeccionar
- This is where we're really gonna hone our skills.
- hone skills
- hone abilities
- hone a craft
But it it helped me hone my craft.
- But it it helped me hone my craft.
- And I and I honed those skills and I honed them.
- Take it as time to hone your creative process.
- Here's some evidence based wisdom on what it takes to hone that emotional agility.
- So that was kind of how I honed my skills.
- And that's when you start, you know, polishing and honing your skills reading.
- He didn't hone it into a skill, though, right?
- He he was great for honing our ideas and technologies against.
- So it really, it really honed my Bush skills.
Examples
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You know, every blacksmith has to hone his craft.
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There he developed the ability to improvise and honed his skills as a pianist.
Academic text (1996) -
So I encourage young people to really, really hone their skills.
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Someone saw your potential and helped you hone your skills.
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Students should then be able to further hone their abilities through individual practice.
Academic text (1994) -
Such structured arts activities can offer rich opportunities for students to hone important early literacy skills.
Academic text (2013) -
Lindbergh flies the mail for a year and hones his skills as a pilot.
Fiction book (2002) -
To become a great musician, you need to continuously hone your skills through practice and dedication.
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She spent hours every day honing her writing abilities to prepare for the upcoming competition.
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By participating in workshops, he was able to hone his public speaking skills significantly.
Synonyms
118
3.9
Make something as good as possible by improving it
34
1.8
To become more skilled in an activity by practicing
4
3.5
Make something better by practicing or fixing it
To get better at a skill by practising
To help someone think more clearly and quickly
To become or make something better
Antonyms
How Improved
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hone as a verb came from the tool's name: just as you use a 'hone' to make a blade very sharp, you 'hone' a skill to make it sharper and better. So to hone a skill is to practice it until it becomes much more effective.