Definition of Bone up

1. Verb. Study intensively, as before an exam. "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

Exact synonyms: Bone, Cram, Drum, Get Up, Grind Away, Mug Up, Swot, Swot Up
Related verbs: Cram
Generic synonyms: Hit The Books, Study
Derivative terms: Crammer, Crammer, Swot

Definition of Bone up

1. Verb. (intransitive idiomatic) To study or cram, especially in order to refresh one's knowledge of a topic. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone Up

bone reflex
bone regeneration
bone remodeling
bone resorption
bone scan
bone scan: falsely negative metastases
bone sclerosis
bone sensibility
bone spavin
bone structure
bone structures
bone substitutes
bone tissue
bone transplantation
bone tumour
bone up
bone wax
bone wires
bone within a bone
boneache
boneaches
boneblack
boneblacks
boned
boned up
bonedigger
bonediggers
bonedog
bonedogs
bonedry

Literary usage of Bone up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Man and Beast Here and Hereafter: Illustrated by More Than Three Hundred by John George Wood (1875)
"The ant pulling a stick over rough ground presents an exact resemblance to Fret dragging the heavy bone up-stairs." It must be remembered that this labor ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"The flaps having failed to unite a second time, the condyles projected at either angle of the wound, and granulations formed freely upon the bone up to the ..."

3. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1802)
"... bone up to the ball of the great toe, and ending like the others in the artery of the great toe ; but as it lid deeper, it gives branches to the ..."

4. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery by Bransby Blake Cooper (1852)
"... the deeper ones, which are attached to the bone, will require another circular incision or incisions completely to denude the bone up to the point where ..."

5. Selected Monographs: Kussmaul and Tenner on Epileptiform Convulsions from by Albrecht von Graefe, Adolf Kussmaul, Adolf Tenner, Albrecht Wagner (1859)
"That which lay upon the under surface adhered firmly to the bone up to a certain level, like the one above described; it then left it, and ran making a ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"A probe passed freely on the bone up to this pus-containing cavity. The patient heard no sounds on the right side of the head. The tuning-fork, sounding, ..."

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