Thesaurus: sharpen

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1. a. To make sharp.
2. a. To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
3. a. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
4. a. To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
5. a. To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
6. a. To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.
7. a. To render more shrill or piercing.
8. a. To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
9. a. To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
10. v. i. To grow or become sharp.
11. v. make sharp or sharper
12. v. make crisp or more crisp and precise