Definition of "sharpened" [sharpened]

• Having a sharp point or edge. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of sharpen. (verb)

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• "His expression sharpened and his eyes began to glitter with a dangerous light as he leaned into her until his face was mere inches from hers."
• "He blinked and his expression sharpened, looking around him, taking in the empty room without comprehension."
• "Old Corbet did not answer him, but turning round to the baronet, who was not then in a capacity to hear or observe anything apart from the terrible convulsions of agony he was suffering, he looked upon him, his keen old eyes in a blaze, his lips open and their expression sharpened by the derisive and satanic triumph that was legible in the demon sneer which kept them apart."