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grind
To ride a skateboard, a snowboard, or skis over a grind rail or narrow surface, often with the board or skis at right angles to the direction of movement.
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  1. To ride a skateboard, a snowboard, or skis over a grind rail or narrow surface, often with the board or skis at right angles to the direction of movement.
  2. To produce or process by turning a crank:
  3. To chop into small pieces or fine particles by means of sharp metal blades
file
To smooth, grind down, or cut through as with a file
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  1. To smooth, grind down, or cut through as with a file
  2. To smooth, reduce, or remove with or as if with a file.
  3. To initiate (a lawsuit):
hone
To perfect or make more intense or effective:
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  1. To perfect or make more intense or effective:
  2. To develop or improve
  3. (Mech.) To enlarge or smooth (a bore) to exact specifications with a rotating stick (honing stone) containing abrasive material
whet
To make more keen; stimulate:
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  1. To make more keen; stimulate:
  2. To sharpen by rubbing or grinding (the edge of a knife or tool); hone
  3. To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone.
strop
To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.
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  1. To sharpen (a razor) on a strop.
  2. To sharpen on a strop
  3. (Computing) To syntactically mark a sequence of letters as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in 'foo' or writing in uppercase as in FOO.
focus
To meet at a focus
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  1. To meet at a focus
  2. To render (an object or image) in clear outline or sharp detail by adjustment of one's vision or an optical device; bring into focus.
  3. To bring into focus
intensify
To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).
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  1. To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).
  2. To become intense or more intense:
  3. To become intense or increase in intensity
clarify
To clear of confusion or uncertainty:
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  1. To clear of confusion or uncertainty:
  2. To make or become easier to understand
  3. To become clear.
acuminate
To make sharp or pointed
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  1. To make sharp or pointed
  2. To sharpen or taper.
edge
To form or put an edge on; provide an edge for
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  1. To form or put an edge on; provide an edge for
  2. To put a border or edge on:
  3. To trim the edge of
hone
To develop or improve
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  1. To develop or improve
  2. To perfect or make more intense or effective:
  3. (Mech.) To enlarge or smooth (a bore) to exact specifications with a rotating stick (honing stone) containing abrasive material
whet
To make more keen; stimulate:
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  1. To make more keen; stimulate:
  2. To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone.
  3. To sharpen by rubbing or grinding (the edge of a knife or tool); hone
Find another word for sharpen. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sharpen, like: grind, file, hone, put an edge on, grind to a fine edge, hone to a razor edge, make sharp, make acute, whet, strop and give an edge to.

Sentence Examples

  • Please, my dear fellow, will you sharpen my saber for me?

  • 20: "All the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share and his coulter."

  • In this central region, however, it is only by way of exception that the cirques were so far enlarged by retrogressive glacial erosion as to sharpen the preglacial dome-like summits into acute peaks; and in no case did glacial action here extend down to the plains at the eastern base of the mountains; but the widened, trough-like glaciated valleys frequently descend to the level of the elevated intermont basins, where moraines were deployed forward on the basin floor.

  • The basis of this growth is partly the story-telling instinct innate in all men, which loves to heighten an effect, sharpen a point or increase a contrast - the instinct which breathes in Icelandic sagas like that of Burnt Njal; partly the instinct of idolization, if it may be so called, which leads to the perversion into impossible greatness of an approved character, and has created, in this instance, the legendary figures of Peter the Hermit and Godfrey of Bouillon (qq.v.); partly the religious impulse, which counted nothing wonderful in a holy war, and imported miraculous elements even into the sober pages of the Gesta.

  • You'll find a wide variety of purse patterns online, and these creations are a way to sharpen your sewing skills while creating something fun and useful.

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