Sharpen

(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.

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• Away, seek them out instantly--and hark thee, if a byzant or two will sharpen their memory, let them not be wanting. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The aborigines knew how to sharpen bones of the animals they killed to scrape, clean, soften or roughen their skins. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• This is an amusement to sharpen the intellect; it has a sting--it has what we call satire, and wit without indecency. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Formerly augers and similar boring tools had merely a curved sharpened end and a concavity to hold the chips, and the whole tool had to be withdrawn to empty the chips. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I have discovered, whispering mysteriously, that her natural cruelty is sharpened by a jealous fear of their regaining their liberty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The head was then soldered and the other end of the pin filed and sharpened. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was impossible to doubt him; there was truth in every one of its thin and sharpened lineaments. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Of course you'll say so,' replied Fledgeby, sharpening, the moment his interest was touched by another. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She has worn herself away by constant sharpening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Trade sharpens wer wits; and them that's mechanics like me is forced to think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She brings everything to a grindstone,' said Steerforth, and sharpens it, as she has sharpened her own face and figure these years past. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But come, fill a flagon, for it will crave some time to tune the harp; and nought pitches the voice and sharpens the ear like a cup of wine. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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