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Definition of Tone up
1. Verb. Give a healthy elasticity to. "Let's tone our muscles"
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
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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