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Sharpened   /ʃˈɑrpənd/   Listen
Sharpened

adjective
1.
Having the point made sharp.
2.
Made sharp or sharper.



Sharpen

verb
(past & past part. sarpened; pres. part. sharpening)
1.
Make sharp or sharper.
2.
Make crisp or more crisp and precise.
3.
Become sharp or sharper.
4.
Put (an image) into focus.  Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus.
5.
Make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper.
6.
Raise the pitch of (musical notes).
7.
Give a point to.  Synonyms: point, taper.
8.
Make (one's senses) more acute.  Synonym: heighten.



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"Sharpened" Quotes from Famous Books



... known that these composed a very great majority of the nation. Yet such was their moderation in most of the States that they did not desire it. In these, therefore, no removals took place but for malversation. In the middle States the contention had been higher, spirits were more sharpened and less accommodating. It was necessary in these to practise a different treatment, and to make a few changes to tranquillize the injured party. A few have been made there, a very few still remain to be made. When this painful operation shall be over, I see nothing else ahead ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... with what had been natural shrewdness at the outset now sharpened almost to clairvoyance by his years of dealing with a multiplicity of men and things, understood the Lieutenant-Governor absolutely, and admired him with all the force of his rugged nature. And Rathbawne was not given to admiring people. His business experience had not ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

... agriculture's division of zoology, elicited the following from Prof. H. A. Surface, State Zoologist. You can do this by finding the nesting places of the pests and making holes into the interior of them with a sharpened stick like a broom handle and pouring into each hole a half tea cup of carbon bisulphide. Fill the hole with earth and cover with a wet cloth or blanket to keep down the fumes and the ants will be destroyed at ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... "shave," for they had no razors,—and by that time the beards of most of the party were as long as Mitford's; but their locks had been trimmed by means of a clasp-knife super-sharpened, whereas Mitford's ...
— The Coxswain's Bride - also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne

... willingly to school; and it WAS jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up notes and Julia Bell passing a "chew" of gum down from the back seat. Anne drew a long breath of happiness as she sharpened her pencil and arranged her picture cards in her desk. Life was certainly ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery


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