0 past simple and past participle of hone
2 to make something perfect or completely suitable for its purpose:
It offers depth as well as breadth combined with a mass of detailed statistical information that has been honed carefully to ensure comparability across countries.
The friars had long honed their polemical skills through rivalry between the orders and with the secular clergy.
Lawyers and experienced community leaders have often honed these skills through years of experience and education.
The justification for doing this is that party programmes are carefully considered and finely honed documents, so no sentence appears in them without a purpose.
Nevertheless, he is also writing for experts, with finely honed specialist knowledge in a range of fields, including philosophy as well as musicology.
As when completing crossword puzzles, each attribute can be practised, improved, and honed to perfection.
In resisting changes that would undermine local control over education, local actors employed resistance strategies honed by the experience of authoritarianism and subordination.
The explications they contain display all the hallmarks of teaching methods honed over many years.
