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Synonyms for tone
Synonyms for tone: strengthen, note and shade. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for tone
Interchangeable with tone in this sense
Audited under tone's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one tone carries in that sense.
- strengthenverb, in the sense "give a healthy elasticity to"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name tone as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under tone and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
give a healthy elasticity to
Let's tone our muscles.
The true synonym
strengthen
Same sentence, swapped: Let's strengthen our muscles.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for tone in the sentence quoted.
- chant
- modulate
- press
Where tone turns up in the game
tone is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where tone is the trap
- accentverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stress, in the sense "put stress on", and tone is one of the three tiles that lose.
- noisenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is racket, in the sense "the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality", and tone is one of the three tiles that lose.
- shadenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tad, in the sense "a slight amount or degree of difference", with tone sitting one tile away.
- accentnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dialect, in the sense "the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people", and tone is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play tone
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tone reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from the body at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tone carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.