bone up

Questions about bone up

What does bone up mean?

bone up means "study intensively, as before an exam".

What is another word for bone up?

Close synonyms include cram, grind away, drum, swot, get up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bone up a common word?

bone up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.