Definition of sharpen

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Sharpen (a.) To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires..

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Rub :: Rub (n.) A stone, commonly flat, used to sharpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone..
Edge :: Edge (v. t.) To furnish with an edge as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
Sharpen :: Sharpen (v. i.) To grow or become sharp.
Acuition :: Acuition (n.) The act of sharpening.
Grind :: Grind (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc..
Hone :: Hone (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor..
Grind :: Grind (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction..
Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Whittle :: Whittle (v. t.) To edge; to sharpen; to render eager or excited; esp., to excite with liquor; to inebriate..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses..
Grit :: Grit (n.) Structure, as adapted to grind or sharpen; as, a hone of good grit..
Crowbar :: Crowbar (n.) A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever..
Spiculate :: Spiculate (v. t.) To sharpen to a point.
Gunflint :: Gunflint (n.) A sharpened flint for the lock of a gun, to ignite the charge. It was in common use before the introduction of percussion caps..
Palisade :: Palisade (n.) A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense..
Sharp :: Sharp (v. t.) To sharpen.
Sharpen :: Sharpen (a.) To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease..
Grind :: Grind (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge..
Sharpening :: Sharpening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sharpe.
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