1. sharpened - Adjective
2. sharpened - Verb
3. sharpened - Adjective Satellite
made sharp or sharper
having the point made sharp
Source: WordNetWhat 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