Usually means: Sharpening a blade or appetite.
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  1. whetting: Merriam-Webster
  2. whetting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whetting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. whetting: Vocabulary.com
  5. Whetting, whetting: Wordnik
  6. whetting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. whetting: Wiktionary
  8. whetting: Dictionary.com
  9. whetting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Whetting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Whetting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. whetting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. whetting: FreeDictionary.org
  14. whetting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The process by which something is whetted.

Similar:
sharpening stone, whetstone, jointing, whittling, sharpener, welting, wire edge, edging, honing steel, wedging, more...

Opposite:
dulling, blunting, deadening

Adjectives:
constant, frequent, hungry, much, familiar, great, subsequent, brisk, final

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Similar:
sharpening stone, whetstone, jointing, whittling, sharpener, welting, wire edge, edging, honing steel, wedging, more...

Opposite:
dulling, blunting, deadening

Adjectives:
constant, frequent, hungry, much, familiar, great, subsequent, brisk, final



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