Bone (Verb)
Meaning 1
Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- The physician needed to bone up on her knowledge of the new medication before she could safely prescribe it.
- To finish the project, the team had to bone up on their coding skills since they had been away from programming for a while.
- As a result of her not being familiar with the new system, the employee spent the entire weekend boning up on the software.
- She only had two days to bone up on her dance moves before the big performance, and it wasn't easy.
- Over winter break, he tried to bone up on calculus so that he wouldn't struggle with the subject in the spring semester.
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Meaning 2
Remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it".
Classification
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc..