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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sharpenedadjective

    having the point made sharp

    "a sharpened pencil"

  2. sharpenedadjective

    made sharp or sharper

    "a sharpened knife cuts more cleanly"

Wiktionary

  1. sharpenedadjective

    Having a sharp point or edge.

ChatGPT

  1. sharpened

    Sharpened refers to the process of making something more precise, effective, clear, or intense. This could refer to physical objects, like sharpening the edge of a knife, or abstract concepts, like sharpening one's skills or memory.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sharpened in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Sharpened in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Sharpened in a Sentence

  1. Chief Executive Michael Corbat:

    We have sharpened our focus on target clients, shedding over 20 consumer and institutional businesses in the process.

  2. Chaim Potok:

    I stood in that room for a long time, watching the sunlight and listening to the sounds on the street outside. I stood there, tasting the room and the sunlight and the sounds, and thinking of the long hospital ward. . . Somehow everything had changed. I had spent five days in a hospital and the world around seemed sharpened now and pulsing with life

  3. Caroline Weaver:

    A lot of our customers are people who happen to be walking by, and they come in a little surprised and amused by a shop that just sells pencils, but we also get a lot of word-of-mouth business from journalists, designers, architects and kids coming in after school. I love seeing kids get excited about pencils. Adults remember the smell, the tactile sensation of writing with a freshly sharpened pencil.

  4. Conservator Per Morten Ekerhovd:

    It's quite unusual to find remnants from the Viking age that are so well preserved ... it might be used today if you sharpened the edge.

  5. Ian Wilson:

    The government is on the offensive against what they see as a potential locus of popular Islamist opposition, sharpened by the recent return of Rizieq, while having a sound legal foundation, the banning is clearly politically driven as well.

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