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Crossword-Solution: HONED 5 letters, 75 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Honed imp. & p. p. of Hone

We have 75 clues for the answer “HONED”

Clue Answers
Perfected, as a craft 1 answer
Sharpened a skill 1 answer
Sharp, presumably 1 answer
Sharp now 1 answer
Refined over time 1 answer
Refined as skills 1 answer
Ready for cutting 1 answer
Prepared for a shave 1 answer
Perfected, as skills 1 answer
Sharpened to a fine edge 1 answer
Perfected through practice 1 answer
Perfected over time 1 answer
Perfected as a skill 1 answer
Made more effective 1 answer
Made more acute 1 answer
Made keen 1 answer
Improved, as skills 1 answer
Improved an edge 1 answer
Stropped 1 answer
Worked to perfect 1 answer
Worked on a dirk 1 answer
Used an oilstone 1 answer
Used a whetstone on 1 answer
Used a whetstone 1 answer
Used a strop on 1 answer
Used a strop 1 answer
Took a strop to 1 answer
Improved, as a skill 1 answer
She had ___ her skill in band, 1 answer
Sharpened, as skills 1 answer
Sharpened, as a skill 1 answer
Sharpened, as a knife 1 answer
Sharpened, as a dull blade 1 answer
Sharpened, as a blade 1 answer
Sharpened, a la Sweeney Todd 1 answer
Got to a point 1 answer
Got an edge on 1 answer
Gave an edge 1 answer
Gave a knife new life 1 answer
Bettered, as skills 1 answer
Fine-tuned, as a razor 1 answer
Fine-tuned, as skills 1 answer
Got to the point? 2 answers
Sharpened, as a razor 2 answers
Improved, in a way 2 answers
Put to the grindstone 2 answers
Made sharper 2 answers
Made sharp 2 answers
Gave an edge to 2 answers
Keen edged 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble HONED5-letter words that start with H5-letter words that end in D5-letter words containing ON5-letter words containing ED5-letter words with H and O

Sentences with HONED (5)

But most new hoes are sold without even a proper bevel ground into the blade, much less with an edge that has been carefully honed.
Organic Gardener's Composting Steve Solomon 2003
You desecrate the hour of meditation with rhapsodies on nature when your aesthetics ain't honed up to the beauties of good tobacco." The other laughed, inflating his deep chest.
The Spoilers Rex Beach 2004
Nevertheless, as GNU tools made their mark in the late 1980s, Stallman's AI Lab-honed reputation for design fastidiousness soon became legendary throughout the entire software-development community.
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software Sam Williams 2004
The temporary decline of this industry in Italy was doubtless in great measure due to the use of sugar which had taken the place of honed, but perhaps also in part to the decrease of the wild vegetation from which the bee draws more or less of his nutriment.
The Earth as Modified by Human Action George P. Marsh 2004
Anyway she has found special favor by virtue of her uncommon vow, and has shown iron resistance against breaking it in the face of honed steel.
Si'Wren of the Patriarchs Roland Cheney 2004

Quotes with HONED (3)

In my hands is power. The power to hear or to destroy. To grant life or to cause death. I revere this gift, have honed it over time an art as magnificent and awesome as any painting in the Louvre. I an art, I am science. In all ways that matter, I am God. God must be ruthless and far-sighted. God studies his creations and selects. The best of these creations must be cherished, protected, sustained. Greatness rewards perfection. Yet even the flawed have purpose. A wise God exp…
J.D. Robb Conspiracy in Death
Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power. Even literacy they fear, for the written word is another channel of communication that might cause their enemies to become united. Their weapons are keen-honed, and they use them with skill. They will press the battle upon the world when their interests are t…
Walter M. Miller Jr. A Canticle for Leibowitz
Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 109 times in crossword archives (1971–2024).