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sharpened
  1. Having a sharp point or edge. v

  2. (en-past of: sharpen)

WordNet
sharpened
  1. adj. having the point made sharp; "a sharpened pencil"

  2. made sharp or sharper; "a sharpened knife cuts more cleanly"

Usage examples of "sharpened".

With the barest thought, he magically added another six feet to his chain and created another sharpened weight for the end in his hand.

He nimbly dodged any who came close enough to strike, and he sank sharpened weights into the bodies of those who broke or avoided the collars.

With as much poise as he could manage, the First pulled the sharpened weight out of his head and let it clatter to the floor.

Perhaps he was born into a tribe of savages, who still lived in skin shelters and carried sharpened sticks for weapons.

For an instant she seemed actually to expand in size and to take on the features of the eagle, so that as her person swelled and her features sharpened it seemed she might transform into a creature that would fill the entire chamber and swallow those who disobeyed it.

Sorrow rose groggily from a nap, but his attention quickly sharpened as he focused on the tunnel across from them.

In an odd way it was as though those old sharpened senses, borrowed through dreams from Stronghand, remained with him.

Blessing had a sweet face still, although she stood as tall as many a nine- or ten-year-old child, but her expression was sharpened by a spark of malicious glee as she bared her teeth in something resembling a grin.

Victory at Hefenfelthe has not tested them, only sharpened their zeal.

The barrier was manned by a dozen field hands armed with staffs sharpened to a point, a single metal-tipped spear, shovels, and scythes.

The bandits slowed, and two put arrows to the strings of their bows, but he could see that besides these two bows the men carried the crudest of weaponsstaffs sharpened to a point at one end, spears tipped with stone blades.

The sturdiest shelter consisted of a lean-to built of sticks covered by a roof woven of reeds, their clothing was little more than grass skirts and cloaks, cunningly braided together, and they had only one cooking pot among them as well as baskets and sharpened sticks fashioned into spears or fishing forks.

She had weight, and heft, and her surety was like the sharpened edge of a killing blade.

Every adult in camp, not just the soldiers had some kind of weapon in hand, shovels, picks, pitchforks, sharpened stakes, and many a makeshift club.

The catspeak in the back of her head sharpened until the hairs on the back of her neck bristled.