What does sharpened mean?

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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. Dmitry Medvedev:

    An act of terror with our plane and the terror attack in Paris ... have sharpened the global political agenda, the war is declared against the whole civilised world. The threat is global and, alas, is real. So the stance of some Western countries on Russia looks weird.

  2. Norman Seabrook:

    If you take a toothbrush and file it down to a sharpened point, a brand new correction officer doesn't have experience with weaponry in a jail system to identify that and they can overlook that.

  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. Michael Connelly:

    The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.

  5. 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

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