Synonym: focalise, focalize, focus, heighten, point, taper. Similar words: sharpener, sharper, carpenter, sharp, carpentaria, sharply, sharpness, look sharp. Meaning: [ʃɑrpən /ʃɑːpən] 
v. 1. make sharp or sharper 2. make sharp or sharper 3. become sharp or sharper 4. put (an image) into focus 5. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper 6. raise the pitch of (musical notes) 7. give a point to 8. make (one's senses) more acute.
v. 1. make sharp or sharper 2. make sharp or sharper 3. become sharp or sharper 4. put (an image) into focus 5. make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper 6. raise the pitch of (musical notes) 7. give a point to 8. make (one's senses) more acute. 
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1. Sharpen all your blunt knives.
2. When you sharpen a pencil, you make chips.
3. Our cat likes to sharpen her claws on the legs of the dining table.
4. He needs to sharpen up before the Olympic trials.
5. She's doing a course to sharpen her business skills.
6. She needs to sharpen up before next month's competition.
7. The training is designed to sharpen the fighter's reflexes.
8. He started to sharpen his knife.
9. You can sharpen your skills with rehearsal.
10. The course will help students sharpen their writing skills.
11. She attends regular training weekends to sharpen her skills.
12. How do you sharpen the focus on this camera?
13. I went to university to sharpen my mind.
14. We're looking to sharpen up the product's image.
15. We'll need to sharpen our wits if we're going to defeat Jack's team.
16. There is a need to sharpen the focus of the discussion.
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18. If the company doesn't sharpen up soon, it will go out of business.
19. You need to sharpen the A string on your violin.
20. This exercise will help students sharpen up their reading skills.
21. I hope this course will help me sharpen my computer skills.
22. My pencil is blunt - I'll have to sharpen it.
23. Sharpen all your pencils before the test.
24. The resulting increase in production should sharpen the instructional focus of the materials.
25. In the dying light other songbirds sharpen calls and phrases, some learned in far places, other continents.
26. A true cat prefers to sharpen his claws on authentic imported oriental carpets, not cheap imitation knock-offs.
27. The Rogich plan is to sharpen up the focus, as well as the pace.
28. Instead of sharpening up their act, they sharpen up their prices and cover their tracks.
29. While reading the anonymous notes the glimmering of an idea had come to him but he could not sharpen the focus.
30. If the horse jumps the first fence stickily, a smack on landing will sharpen him up.
More similar words: sharpener, sharper, carpenter, sharp, carpentaria, sharply, sharpness, look sharp, sharp practice, warped, carpet, carpe diem, carpetbagger, harp, harpy, harping, serpent, serpentine, turpentine, perpendicular, share, shard, shark, shared, a share, shariah, shareware, sharing, share price, shareholder.