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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His former manager at Leicester, Brendan Rodgers, is now coaching in Saudi Arabia — not that the lad sharpened by a steely upbringing near Sheffield is an obvious fit to finish his career too far from home.—
Andy Mitten,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026 -
And as each individual signal was beginning to get lost in the noise, the volume began rising and the claims sharpened.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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The numbers mark a sharp reversal from a spike in violence during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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The blazer of Middleton’s look included sharp shoulders with sinuous lapels and angular pockets at the waist.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Stropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stropped. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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