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sharpen
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[ verb ] make sharp or sharper
Examples "We had to sharpen our arguments" Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature , a Jesuit father , at a conference on religious drama near Paris . Related terms |
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[ verb ] become sharp or sharper
Examples "The debate sharpened" Used in print (T. C. McClary, "The Flooded Desert," Argosy,...)Her chin sharpened . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put into focus; as of an image on a screen
Examples "Please focus the image we cannot enjoy the movie" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)Perhaps one way to sharpen our sense of the modernity of Utopian communism is to contrast it with the principal earlier types of communistic theory . |
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[ verb ] make sharp or sharper of images and sounds
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