1. honed - Adjective
2. honed - Verb
of Hone
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe cutting edge of service is always being honed and polished. Ron Kaufman
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed. Anita Desai
A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. Charles Swindoll
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly. Fred F. Fielding
The knives of jealousy are honed on details. Ruth Rendell
Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks. Mary Astor