Strop and Smooth

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Strop verb - To make sharp or sharper.

Usage example: at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades

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Smooth is an antonym for strop.

Nearby Word: stropping

Smooth verb - To free from obstruction or difficulty.

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Strop is an antonym for smooth.

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Smooth and Strop. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/strop/smooth

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