Sharpness
Nouns
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sharpness etc. adj.
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acuity, acumination
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spinosity. point, spike, spine, spicule [Biol.], spiculum
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needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin
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prick, prickle
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spur, rowel, barb
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spit, cusp
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horn, antler
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snag
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tag thorn, bristle
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Adam's needle, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca. nib, tooth, tusk
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spoke, cog, ratchet. crag, crest, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille
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spire, pyramid, steeple. beard, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle
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comb
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awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle. wedge
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knife edge, cutting edge
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blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor
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scalpel
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bistoury, lancet
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plowshare, coulter, colter
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hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill
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billhook, cleaver, cutter
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scythe, sickle
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scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter
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sword etc. (arms) Arms
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bodkin etc. (perforator) Perforator
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belduque, bowie knife, paring knife
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bushwhacker [U.S.]
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drawing knife, drawing shave
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microtome [Micro.]
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chisel, screwdriver blade
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flint blade
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guillotine. sharpener, hone, strop
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grindstone, whetstone
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novaculite
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steel, emery.
Verbs
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be sharp etc. adj.
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taper to a point
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bristle with. render sharp etc. adj.
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sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind
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chip (flint). cut etc. (sunder) Disjunction.
Adjectives
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sharp, keen
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acute
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acicular, aciform
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aculeated, acuminated
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pointed
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tapering
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conical, pyramidal
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mucronate, mucronated
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spindle shaped, needle shaped
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spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient
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cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated
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cornute, cornuted, cornicultate
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prickly
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spiny, spinous, spicular
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thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary
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craggy etc. (rough) Roughness
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snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.]
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dentiform, denticulated
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toothed
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odontoid
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starlike
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stellated, stelliform
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sagittate, sagittiform
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arrowheaded
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arrowy, barbed, spurred. acinaciform
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apiculate, apiculated
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aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate
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lanceolate, lanciform
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awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped
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setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid. cutting
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sharp edged, knife edged
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sharp as a razor, keen as a razor
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sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack
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sharpened etc. v.
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set