sharpen (something) up

Examples of sharpened

sharpened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

In addition, class distinctions in political efficacy sharpened with time, as efficacy levels dropped noticeably among the working-class, but not the middle-class, identifiers.
The author was not only a privileged observer but also a secondary actor in the events of 1965 which sharpened the profile of this dispute.
The tip of the penetration side of the stoppers could be sharpened or curved.
The hole was made slightly larger than the jet and its edge was sharpened.
This was a version of the ' planning paradox ', sharpened by circumstances.
Much of this research was critical, it sharpened and clarified the concepts and broke down the wide generalities of the earlier theories.
Moreover, phonemic boundaries are not sharpened in memory.
But the analogy with the standard claim about distributive sensitivity can be sharpened.
Depending on the weighting term, the tuning either sharpened or broadened, reproducing the range of behaviors we observed.
In one sense the argument may be sharpened by reading more theory rather than less.
This contradiction was only sharpened by the economic crisis of the early 1930s.
My inner eye, sharpened by the manifold appearances of a similar kind, now distinguished larger structures of various shapes.
With this method, the error is propagated and sharpened in order to finally obtain a reliable position and direction.
One end was sharpened to a point, and the thicker bone allowed for the application of force.
They have sharpened our understanding of how communication between courts and people worked in practice.
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