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Synonyms for bone up


Grammar : Verb
Spell : bohn
Phonetic Transcription : boʊn

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Définition of bone up

Origin :
  • Old English ban "bone, tusk," from Proto-Germanic *bainam (cf. Old Frisian ben, Old Norse bein, Danish ben, German Bein). No cognates outside Germanic (the common PIE root is *os-; see osseous); the Norse, Dutch, and German cognates also mean "shank of the leg," and this is the main meaning in Modern German, but English never seems to have had this sense.
  • verb review something intensely
Example sentences :
  • Then, when she came to Avi-'itšôrinyêne, she threw the bone up, and they all stopped.
  • Extract from : « Seven Mohave Myths » by A. L. Kroeber
  • But I'll lend you some books, so you can bone up on the theory of flight.
  • Extract from : « Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings » by Dorothy Wayne
  • One of the committee members tried to pick a bone up, and it fell to pieces in his fingers.
  • Extract from : « Caves of Terror » by Talbot Mundy
  • Oblique, when the direction of the line of fracture may form any angle with the transverse axis of the bone up to a right angle.
  • Extract from : « Surgery, with Special Reference to Podiatry » by Maximilian Stern

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