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look sharp

look sharp verb: pay attention; be alert.

Verb

look sharp (third-person singular simple present looks sharp, present participle looking sharp, simple past and past participle looked sharp)

  1. (imperative) Pay attention; be alert.
  2. (imperative) Hurry up; work quickly.
    • Have you made a fire in the grate? / Not yet, I am just going to make one. / Look sharp, it is very cold, and make the fire very fierce.1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press
    Synonyms:
    look snappy

look sharp meaning in Tamil

look sharp in Tamil

சுறுசுறுப்பு

Synonyms of look sharp

Forms of look sharp

third-person singular presentlooks sharp
present participlelooking sharp
past participlelooked sharp
pastlooked sharp

Questions about look sharp

What does look sharp mean?
Look sharp means pay attention; be alert.
What is look sharp in Tamil?
Look sharp in Tamil is சுறுசுறுப்பு. See Look sharp meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is look sharp?
Look sharp is a verb.
What is the past tense of look sharp?
The past tense of look sharp is looked sharp.

Words near look sharp in the dictionary

  1. look past
  2. look past the end of one's nose
  3. look past the tip of one's nose
  4. look right through
  5. look round
  6. look sharp
  7. look shy
  8. look snappy
  9. look the other way
  10. look the part
  11. look through

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look sharp (page history and authors); look sharp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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