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honed

[ hohnd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

sharpened on a hone or whetstone:
Our julienne peeler has 12 honed blades for superfine cuts that will make your julienne vegetables look like a restaurant’s.
made more acute or effective; improved or perfected:
We finish our degrees with highly desirable, finely honed skills, including how to research, how to work hard, and how to think critically.
(of a hole) enlarged with a hone:
When it comes to the barrel of this rifle, the diameter uniformity and roundness of the honed bore are superb.

Origin of honed¹

Their authors promise that your spirit will be improved, your ambition honed, and your finances maximized by their advice.

Fueled by a well-honed messaging and technology-driven targeting, an otherwise unknown candidate sailed into office.

His skills have also been honed working for the GOP presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney.

It requires a finely honed sense of timing and a griddle that has been seasoned just right.

When Veep returned Sunday night, its sharp-tongued writing was honed to a perfect razor edge.

He had never seen her look more beautiful, but it was the icy beauty of a honed dagger.

These should be fined or honed to a perfect point, and the abrupt part of the barb filed down one-half.

But, do you know, there is no sentence I might utter that has a keener, a more freshly honed razor-edge to it than that.

This weapon is always kept as sharp as possible; and when being used is occasionally honed, just like a razor.

He went out to where his followers made grisly zinging noises where they honed their knives.

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