Dictionary Entry
hone
hone is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pine; to lament; to long. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To pine; to lament; to long.
- 2noun
A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- 3noun
A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
- 4transitive verb
To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
- 5noun
a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- 6verb
make perfect or complete
"perfect your French in Paris!"
Synonyms
- 7verb
sharpen with a hone
"hone a knife"
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