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SHARPEN

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Traducere în limba română

sharpen verb A. tranzitiv

a ascuţi, a subţia vârful (cu gen.).

sharpen verb B. intranzitiv

a se ascuţi, a deveni tăios.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mugridge sat down on the raised threshold to the galley and went on with his knife-sharpening.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

No one spoke of it or seemed aware of it, for it had come too gradually to startle those who saw her daily, but to eyes sharpened by absence, it was very plain and a heavy weight fell on Jo's heart as she saw her sister's face.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Van Helsing examines, he tells me, her teeth very carefully, whilst she is in the hypnotic condition, for he says that so long as they do not begin to sharpen there is no active danger of a change in her.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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