Reverse Dictionary: SHARPEN

ADJECTIVES
► ACUATE sharpened, sharp-pointed → 1471

NOUNS
► ACUATING the act of sharpening → 1753 obs.
► ACUATION sharpening, rendering acute → 1837
► ACUITION the act of sharpening → 1753 obs.
► ACULEATION the state of being sharpened or pointed → 1870
► ACUMINATION the act of sharpening or bringing to a point → 1837

VERBS
► ABER to sharpen, as a knife → 1931 Sc.
► ACUATE to make sharp or pungent; to sharpen → 1542 obs.
► ACUMINATE to sharpen, to make pointed; to give poignancy or keenness to → 1611
► ACUTE to sharpen or quicken a quality; to make more active or intense → 1637 obs. rare
► AFFILE to sharpen; to polish → 1485 obs.
► CUSPIDATE to sharpen to a point→ 1623 obs.