Whetted
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Whet
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Examples
- Nothing in her cherished affection in me, made me better, gentler; she only stirred my brain and whetted my acuteness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She felt as if her senses were being whetted on some fine grindstone, that was keen as flame. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I knew the steely ire I had whetted. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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