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present participle and gerund of sharpen examples
plural sharpenings
The act by which something is sharpened. quotations examples
There are flourishes and coloratura passages in this art, heightenings and sharpenings of the line that serve only to give the needy linear system a value of its own in confrontation with nature.
1970, Heinrich Wölfflin, Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, page 4
(in the plural) The debris produced when a pencil is sharpened. examples