Synonyms for sharpened
sharp·ened

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1. sharpenedadjective

   having the point made sharp

   "a sharpened pencil"

   Antonyms:
   pointless, unpointed, dull

2. sharpenedadjective

   made sharp or sharper

   "a sharpened knife cuts more cleanly"

   Antonyms:
   unpointed, dull, pointless

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1. honedverb

   the man honed his abilities. the man sharpened his abilities.

   Submitted by Maxgolub on October 28, 2021  

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1. List of paraphrases for "sharpened":

   refined

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1. unknown:

   I will never be the first of so many things for you. I came too late, after life and love were woven into the tapestry of your existence. I care not about lost firsts, but I will fight, knuckles bloody and teeth sharpened, for your lasts. Take the old firsts and put them to rest, silent below the dirt and ash of all the new ones we will burn through. Take them, and give me the lasts.

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. Simon Cheng:

   I was hung (handcuffed and shackled) on a steep X-Cross doing a spread-eagled pose for hours after hours, sometimes, they ordered me to do the 'stress tests', which includes extreme strength exercise such as 'squat' and 'chair pose' for countless hours. They beat me every time I failed to do so using something like sharpened batons.

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