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sharpen

English

  1. 🔊 become sharp or sharper
    “The debate sharpened”
  2. 🔊 make crisp or more crisp and precise
    “We had to sharpen our arguments”
  3. 🔊 make (one's senses) more acute
    “This drug will sharpen your vision”
  4. 🔊 give a point to
    “The candles are tapered”
  5. 🔊 raise the pitch of (musical notes)
  6. 🔊 make sharp or sharper
    “sharpen the knives”
  7. 🔊 make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper
  8. 🔊 put (an image) into focus
    “Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 afilar to sharpen
  2. 🔊 agudizar to sharpen
  3. 🔊 aguzar to sharpen
  4. 🔊 amolar to sharpen

Similar words

focus focalize focalise heighten taper point accelerate aculeate acuminate agent provocateur aggravate amplify animate annoy augment barb beef up blow up build up complicate concentrate condense consolidate cultivate