Definition of Tone up

1. Verb. Give a healthy elasticity to. "Let's tone our muscles"

Exact synonyms: Strengthen, Tone
Generic synonyms: Exercise, Work Out
Derivative terms: Tone

Definition of Tone up

1. Verb. to strengthen and make the muscles of the body firmer by regular excercise. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tone Up

tone dialing
tone dialling
tone down
tone ending
tone language
tone mark
tone marks
tone number
tone numbers
tone of voice
tone poem
tone poems
tone sandhi
tone scale
tone system
tone up (current term)
tonearm
tonearms
toned
toned down(p)
toneless
tonelessly
tonelessness
tonelessnesses
toneme
tonemes
tonemic
tonepad
tonepads
toner

Literary usage of Tone up

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

1. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"... dogwood bark, poplar bark, common wild cherry-tree, or any other good tonic barks, or roots which are known to be good to tone up the system, ..."

2. Modern Pigments and Their Vehicles: Their Properties and Uses Considered by Frederick Maire (1907)
"It is customary with many color grinders to tone up ... That is a legitimate transaction; but when this is done to tone up a poor ocher so that it will sell ..."

3. Modern Pigments and Their Vehicles: Their Properties and Uses Considered by Frederick Maire (1907)
"It is customary with many color grinders to tone up ... That is a legitimate transaction; but when this is done to tone up a poor ocher so that it will sell ..."

4. International Clinics: A Quarterly of Clinical Lectures by Henry W. Cattell, M. D. Witherspoon (1906)
"Anything which will tone up, invigorate, and improve his general condition ... About all we can hope to do is to tone up and invigorate the general system ..."

5. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1914)
"That will tone up the stomach. There is a little canker, humor in the stomach, and I think that will cleanse and tone up the stomach, and with these other ..."

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