English-French translations for sharpen

• affiler
• aiguiser
  C’est pourquoi, Monsieur Juncker, nous ferions bien d’aiguiser nos armes dès maintenant, car il ne sert à rien de nous enliser dans des compromis abstrus, même s’ils ont réuni 20 ministres. We therefore might as well begin to sharpen our weapons, Mr Juncker, because it is really not worth losing our way in abstruse compromises, even if they have brought 20 ministers together.
• affuter
• aguerrir

Definition of sharpen

• To make sharp
• To become sharp

Examples

• to sharpen a pencil or a knife

Related words

• sharpening
• sharpened
• sharpener
• resharpen
• unsharpened
• pan-sharpening
• sharpen#Inglese|sharpen
• sharpening steel
• sharpening stone