sharpen
sharpen is a 7-letter English word with 18 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make sharp. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. To make sharp.
- adjective. To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
- adjective. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
- adjective. To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
- adjective. To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
- adjective. To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.
- adjective. To render more shrill or piercing.
- adjective. To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
- adjective. To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
- intransitive verb. To grow or become sharp.
- verb. put (an image) into focus
"Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie"
- verb. become sharp or sharper
"The debate sharpened"
- verb. make crisp or more crisp and precise
"We had to sharpen our arguments"
- verb. make (one's senses) more acute
"This drug will sharpen your vision"
- verb. give a point to
"The candles are tapered"
- verb. raise the pitch of (musical notes)
- verb. make sharp or sharper
"sharpen the knives"
- verb. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper
Synonyms
focalise, focalize, focus, heighten, point, taper
Common word forms
sharpens, sharpened, sharpener, sharpening
Words from these letters
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