Synonyms of strop

strop

verb

as in to sharpen

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sharpen
• stone
• grind
• edge
• file
• hone
• whet

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dull
• blunt
• polish
• round
• gloss
• smooth
• buff
• burnish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of strop

Sometimes a leafy twig is selected, and before this can be used the chimpanzee has to strop off the leaves. — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019

There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor. — New York Times, 9 July 2018