Usually means: Improving clarity or effectiveness; honing.
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  1. sharpening: Merriam-Webster
  2. sharpening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sharpening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sharpening, sharpening: Wordnik
  5. sharpening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sharpening: Wiktionary
  7. sharpening: Dictionary.com
  8. sharpening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Sharpening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Sharpening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Sharpening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. sharpening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. sharpening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sharpening: Legal dictionary

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  1. sharpening: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sharpening)

▸ noun:  The act by which something is sharpened.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened.

Similar:
heighten, taper, point, focus, resharpening, strengthening, tightening, burnishing, freshening, polishing, more...

Opposite:
dulling, blunting, unsharpening

Types:
honing, stropping, more...

Phrases:
Sharpening stone, sharpening up, instrument sharpening, sharpening file, sharpening cone, more...

Adjectives:
frequent, leveling, further, self, constant, little, general, final, much, considerable, slight

Colors:
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Similar:
heighten, taper, point, focus, resharpening, strengthening, tightening, burnishing, freshening, polishing, more...

Opposite:
dulling, blunting, unsharpening

Types:
honing, stropping, more...

Phrases:
Sharpening stone, sharpening up, instrument sharpening, sharpening file, sharpening cone, sharpening cone stones, Human tooth sharpening, Knife sharpening, verb for knife sharpening, sharpening wheel, more...

Adjectives:
frequent, leveling, further, self, constant, little, general, final, much, considerable, slight

Colors:
    silver,     steel gray,     graphite,     charcoal,     gunmetal, more...



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