Clues for the word "SHARPEN"
We've had 27 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 52 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 19, 2025.
Definition of sharpen
- a. - To make sharp.
- a. - To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
- a. - To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious.
- a. - To make more eager; as, to sharpen men's desires.
- a. - To make more pungent and intense; as, to sharpen a pain or disease.
- a. - To make biting, sarcastic, or severe.
- a. - To render more shrill or piercing.
- a. - To make more tart or acid; to make sour; as, the rays of the sun sharpen vinegar.
- a. - To raise, as a sound, by means of a sharp; to apply a sharp to.
- v. i. - To grow or become sharp.
Referring Clues
- Use an oilstone
- Get to the point of?
- Make a point, in a way
- Make a point of
- Use a whetstone on
- Put a fresh point on
- Intensify
- Make a point
- Improve, as skills
- Whet
- Use a whetstone
- Hone
- Give an edge to
- Brush up on, as a skill
- Use an oilstone, e.g.
- Ugly Casanova "___ Your Teeth"
- Increase pitch of instrument in three different ways
- Give point to the phrase, "Veering north"
- Make more acute
- Hone the right to be informed?
- Increase keenness?
- Give point to singular female's grasp of French surrealist
- Improve cutting edge instrument in small measure
- Make a point?
- Put an edge on things
- Fine-tune
- Improve, as an argument
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2025
- Daily American - August 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 14, 2025
- New York Times - September 13, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 20, 2023
- Daily American - August 30, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - August 17, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - May 26, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 09, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 29, 2022
- USA Today - November 27, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 03, 2017
- Rock n Roll Crossword - September 10, 2017
- Daily American - August 30, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 14, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - May 05, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - February 20, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - August 03, 2016
- LA Times - November 15, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 30, 2015
- Universal - February 03, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 17, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - January 25, 2013
- Guardian Quick - May 03, 2011
- Thinks Daily - January 30, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - August 02, 2010
- Washington Post - June 20, 2010
- Guardian Quick - December 02, 2009
- And in 22 more crossword puzzles...