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- Verb, gerund or present participle
  accelerating, aggravating, aligning, ameliorating, augmenting, compounding, distinguishing, emphasizing, exacerbating, focusing, fueling, glaring, greater, heightening, highlighting, improving, increase, increased, increasing, polishing, raising, rising, setting, striking, stripping, surging, tailoring, tuning, uplifting, Adjourning, Adjusting, Arousing, Bolstering, Boosting, Canceling, Elevating, Enhancing, Fanning, Furthering, Honing, Lifting, Perfecting, stressing, upgrading, streamlining, targeting, spiralling.
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- Verb, gerund or present participle
  refining, strengthening, tightening, Concentrating, reinforcing.

What are the hypernyms for Sharpening?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Other hypernyms:
edging, grinding, improvement, modification, polishing, refinement, Honing, Smoothing, smoothing out, ablating.

Usage examples for Sharpening

He also said something to the same effect to Mrs. Mac when that lady was Sharpening her imagination one evening at dinner.

"The Locusts' Years"

Mary Helen Fee

It was not the reaper Death who was Sharpening his scythe, but the gardener.

"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"

Jethro Bithell

But it is an artistic no less than a moral gain, Sharpening the interest felt in the evolution of her fictitious personages.

"George Eliot"

Mathilde Blind

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