sharpened

Speech parts

1. sharpened - Adjective

2. sharpened - Verb

3. sharpened - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

made sharp or sharper

having the point made sharp

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

better focus improve fine pointed sharp cutting enhanced acute sensory keen finer tapered sharper stabbing
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Antonyms

even flat confused faded flattened blunt
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Phrases with the word

sharpened pin

Anagrams

epershand

Examples

What we take to be our strongest tower of delight, only stands at the caprice of the minutest event the falling of a leaf, the hearing of a voice, or the receipt of one little bit of paper scratched over with a few small characters by a sharpened feather. Herman Melville

Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. George Meredith

Let the wary stranger who seeks refreshment keep silent with sharpened hearing. Norse Proverb

Jade and men, both are sharpened by bitter tools. Chinese Proverb

Man must be sharpened on man, like knife on stone. Chinese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sharpen laces sharpen up sharpenable sharpened pin sharpener sharpening