to tone
- verb
- /toʊn/
- This is a great way to tone and strengthen your upper legs.
- tone the body
One of my main goals for this year was to work on my fitness, but not lose weight, but just kind of tone in places, namely my bottom.
- One of my main goals for this year was to work on my fitness, but not lose weight, but just kind of tone in places, namely my bottom.
Examples
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I can help you tone that body up in no time.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her features were rounded but not unpleasant, and her body was toned from daily aerobic exercise.
Fiction book (1991) -
That's basically to tone my arms and like my back.
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Yeah, she could definitely do with toning up.
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The squeeze-rod is your answer if you want to tone up your arm muscles...
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He's got the finely toned body of a pro golfer.
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Regular workouts can help you tone your stomach muscles effectively.
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She does yoga every morning to tone her legs and improve flexibility.
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Lifting weights can tone your muscles and enhance your overall strength.
Synonyms
To make muscles, relationships, or groups stronger
To exercise to improve your health
To make muscles firmer and stronger by exercise
To make the body or its parts stronger and firmer
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Compounds
- Specialized
The seventh note of a scale that is one half step below the main note and pulls toward it
- Specialized
A musical interval half the size of a semitone used in some modern and non-Western music
- Specialized
A higher sound made when the main note vibrates a whole number of times
- Specialized
A light balanced arm on a record player that holds the needle and moves across a record
- Specialized
A language where changes in voice pitch make words mean different things
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Etymology
The verb tone comes from the Greek tonos, meaning 'tension'. So to tone your muscles is to increase their tension and make them firmer and more defined.