I want a knife to sharpen my pencil with.
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Sharpen
//ˈʃɑɹpən//
Synonyms for "sharpen" (129 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (39)
Related words (64)
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More general
14 entriesAntonyms
5 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesderived
8 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
4 entriesrelated to
1 entriesTranslations
132 translations across 68 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὀξύνω verb (to make sharp)
Arabic
1 entries- شَحَذَ verb (to make sharp)
Armenian
1 entries- սրել verb (to make sharp)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- itiləmək verb (to make sharp)
Basque
1 entries- zorroztu verb (to make sharp)
Bulgarian
2 entries- остря verb (to make sharp)
- точа verb (to make sharp)
Burmese
1 entries- ချွန် verb (to make sharp)
Campidanese Sardinian
1 entries- arrodare verb (to make sharp)
Catalan
2 entries- agusar verb (to make sharp)
- esmolar verb (to make sharp)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎬᏟᎭ verb (to make sharp)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 削尖 verb (to make sharp)
- 磨 verb (to make sharp)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- qayramaq verb (to make sharp)
Czech
1 entries- ostřit verb (to make sharp)
Danish
1 entries- skærpe verb (to make sharp)
Dutch
3 entries- aanscherpen verb (to make sharp)
- scherpen verb (to make sharp)
- slijpen verb (to make sharp)
Esperanto
1 entries- akrigi verb (to make sharp)
Estonian
3 entries- ihuma hammast/hambaid verb (to make sharp)
- teravdama (teravda) verb (to make sharp)
- teritama pliiatsit (terita) verb (to make sharp)
Finnish
1 entries- teroittaa verb (to make sharp)
French
3 entries- affiler verb (to make sharp)
- affûter verb (to make sharp)
- aiguiser verb (to make sharp)
Friulian
1 entries- spiçâ verb (to make sharp)
Galician
2 entries- afiar verb (to make sharp)
- aguzar verb (to make sharp)
Gallurese
1 entries- arrudà verb (to make sharp)
Georgian
4 entries- გალესვა verb (to make sharp)
- მოპირვა verb (to make sharp)
- წამახვა verb (to make sharp)
- წაწვეტება verb (to make sharp)
German
2 entries- schärfen verb (to make sharp)
- spitzen verb (to make sharp)
Greek
1 entries- ακονίζω verb (to make sharp)
Hindi
1 entries- पैना करना verb (to make sharp)
Hungarian
4 entries- fen verb (to make sharp)
- hegyez verb (to make sharp)
- kihegyez verb (to make sharp)
- köszörül verb (to make sharp)
Indonesian
1 entries- mengasah verb (to make sharp)
Ingrian
2 entries- hiuttaa verb (to make sharp)
- kirahuttaa verb (to make sharp)
Irish
2 entries- faobhraigh verb (to make sharp)
- géaraigh verb (to make sharp)
Italian
4 entries- affilare verb (to make sharp)
- affinare verb (to make sharp)
- arrotare verb (to make sharp)
- molare verb (to make sharp)
Japanese
2 entries- 削る verb (to make sharp)
- 研ぐ verb (to make sharp)
Javanese
1 entries- ngasah verb (to make sharp)
Kazakh
1 entries- ұштау verb (to make sharp)
Khmer
1 entries- សំរួច verb (to make sharp)
Latin
2 entries- acuō verb (to make sharp)
- cuspidō verb (to make sharp)
Luxembourgish
2 entries- schläifen verb (to make sharp)
- schäerfen verb (to make sharp)
Macedonian
3 entries- о́стри verb (to make sharp)
- то́чи verb (to make sharp)
- ши́ли verb (to make sharp)
Malay
1 entries- asah verb (to make sharp)
Mongolian
4 entries- билүүдэх verb (to make sharp)
- ирлэх verb (to make sharp)
- хурцлах verb (to make sharp)
- үзүүрлэх verb (to make sharp)
Māori
4 entries- oroi verb (to make sharp)
- whakakoi verb (to make sharp)
- whakangangahu verb (to make sharp)
- whakaratarata verb (to make sharp)
Nanai
2 entries- пивэ verb (to make sharp)
- сули verb (to make sharp)
Norman
1 entries- appointchi verb (to make sharp)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- hvesse verb (to make sharp)
- kvesse verb (to make sharp)
- skjerpe verb (to make sharp)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- kvesse verb (to make sharp)
- skjerpe verb (to make sharp)
Occitan
2 entries- agusar verb (to make sharp)
- amolar verb (to make sharp)
Oromo
1 entries- qaruu verb (to make sharp)
Polish
1 entries- ostrzyć verb (to make sharp)
Portuguese
2 entries- afiar verb (to make sharp)
- apontar verb (to make sharp)
Romanian
1 entries- ascuți verb (to make sharp)
Russian
4 entries- заточи́ть verb (to make sharp)
- наточи́ть verb (to make sharp)
- поточи́ть verb (to make sharp)
- точи́ть verb (to make sharp)
Sardinian
1 entries- arrodare verb (to make sharp)
Sassarese
1 entries- arruddà verb (to make sharp)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- šiljiti verb (to make sharp)
Slovene
2 entries- ošiliti verb (to make sharp)
- šiliti verb (to make sharp)
Spanish
4 entries- afilar verb (to make sharp)
- hacer más nítido verb (to make sharp)
- nitidizar verb (to make sharp)
- nitificar verb (to make sharp)
Swedish
1 entries- vässa verb (to make sharp)
Tamil
1 entries- சீவு verb (to make sharp)
Tausug
1 entries- hasa verb (to make sharp)
Telugu
1 entries- పదునుపెట్టు verb (to make sharp)
Thai
2 entries- ลับ verb (to make sharp)
- เหลา verb (to make sharp)
Turkish
2 entries- açmak verb (to make sharp)
- keskinleştirmek verb (to make sharp)
Ukrainian
2 entries- заго́стрювати verb (to make sharp)
- загостри́ти verb (to make sharp)
Unami
1 entries- kinhàmën verb (to make sharp)
Vietnamese
2 entries- mài verb (to make sharp)
- vót verb (to make sharp)
Volapük
2 entries- japükön verb (to make sharp)
- tipükön verb (to make sharp)
Walloon
3 entries- rawijhî verb (to make sharp)
- rishinmî verb (to make sharp)
- shinmî verb (to make sharp)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- kirk-kirk-konak verb (to make sharp)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
May I sharpen my pencil?
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Sharpen your pencil.
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I think it's time for me to sharpen my pencil.
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