as in sharpened
having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something
I was surprised at how sharp the stropped razor was
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as in stoned
to make sharp or sharper
at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades
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Verb
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At the same time, a currency collapsing under international sanctions, water shortages and recurring power outages have sharpened a sense of crisis across the country.—
Roxana Saberi, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
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Kantor, 42, learned to knit when spending the summer with her grandparents at their bungalow colony in the Catskills, and sharpened her skills in the stands at her brother’s little league games.—
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The numbers mark a sharp reversal from a spike in violence during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
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The blazer of Middleton’s look included sharp shoulders with sinuous lapels and angular pockets at the waist.—
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“Stropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stropped. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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