Usually means: Improves or enhances effectiveness, precision.
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  1. sharpens: Merriam-Webster
  2. sharpens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sharpens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sharpens, sharpens: Wordnik
  5. sharpens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sharpens: Wiktionary
  7. sharpens: Dictionary.com
  8. sharpens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sharpens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sharpens: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sharpen)

▸ verb:  (transitive, sometimes figurative) To make sharp.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become sharp.
▸ Also see sharpen


Opposite:
dulls, blunts, unsharpens

Phrases:
sharpens up, sharpens the edge of, sharpens your intellect, more...



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Opposite:
dulls, blunts, unsharpens

Phrases:
sharpens up, sharpens the edge of, sharpens your intellect, more...




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