sharpen (something) up

Examples of sharpening

sharpening

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

Sharpening the idea of learning about putative obligations will be helpful.
Yet, the flurry of promotions within the existing peerage did not denote a substantial sharpening of divisions between the established and the newer peerage.
But experience might also strengthen the local excitatory interactions, leading to a sharpening of the kernel.
One obvious way to avoid such indeterminacy is to fix on some particular sharpening of "serious" and to work with that.
Engineering employers, frequently stealing workers from each other, dealt with the matter collectively by sharpening their rules against poaching.
This step also has the slight effect of sharpening the direction tuning.
With the sharpening of factional rivalries and ideological differences, however, even aristocratic patronage of the theatre could not be equated with stability or royal control.
That is, for each sharpening, a small change in severity would make for a change in kind.
The group velocity also increases with laser intensity; hence the latter portion of the pulse reinforces with the front, causing stronger pulse-front sharpening.
This leads to temporal sharpening of the pulse.
In both cases, the sharpening of the capacity for hearing what one sees, or conversely writing down in visual notation what one hears, becomes lost.
Sharpening our understanding of vocalic changes requires more systematic control of variation coming from consonant context, which may have a significant impact on the results.
Sharpening of frequency tuning by inhibition in the thalamic auditory nucleus of the mustached bat.
They contributed in sharpening my view of epistemological problems and promoted a more distanced view of the sciences.
There are different "admissible" ways of sharpening the borderline between serious and non-serious illnesses.
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