Fine and Sharpened

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Fine adjective - Consisting of very small particles.

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Sharpened and fine are semantically related. in sharp topic. In some cases you can use "Sharpened" instead an adjective "Fine".

Nearby Words: fineness, finery, finely, fined, fining

Sharpened adjective - Having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something.

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Fine and sharpened are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fine" instead an adjective "Sharpened".

Nearby Words: sharp, sharpening, sharpener

In one novel Bill Door makes a replacement which gets sharpened on an increasingly-fine array of strops, including linen, silk, cobwebs, and eventually sunlight.

Source: Impossibly Cool Weapon
The Sherlock example in TV, above, is remarkably similar to what happened to Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") in 1898; she was stabbed by an anarchist with an extremely fine, sharpened needle file and the flow of blood was slowed by her extremely tight corset.

Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed
They are beautiful things, kind and pure, clothed in fine dresses and soft gloves who hold silk fans... made of sharpened blades.

Source: Silk Hiding Steel

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