sharp
/ʃɑɹp/ verb C2- To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. · That new musician must be tone deaf: he sharped half the notes of the song!
- To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
He/she/it sharps · Past sharped · Past participle sharped · -ing form sharping
Verb forms
- Base form
- sharp
- He/she/it
- sharps
- Past
- sharped
- Past participle
- sharped
- -ing form
- sharping
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They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
And then she called a dozen of her slaves, who were the Winkies, and gave them sharp spears, telling them to go to the strangers and destroy them.
There now came a sharp whistling in the air from the south, and as they turned their eyes that way they saw ripples in the grass coming from that direction also.
With one blow of his paw he sent the Scarecrow spinning over and over to the edge of the road, and then he struck at the Tin Woodman with his sharp claws.
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