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oversharpening

oversharpening is the present participle and gerund of oversharpen.

Meaning of oversharpen

Verb

oversharpen (third-person singular simple present oversharpens, present participle oversharpening, simple past and past participle oversharpened)

  1. (transitive) To sharpen too much.

Questions about oversharpening

What is oversharpening the present participle and gerund of?
Oversharpening is the present participle and gerund of oversharpen.

Words near oversharpening in the dictionary

  1. oversharey
  2. oversharing
  3. oversharp
  4. oversharpen
  5. oversharpened
  6. oversharpening
  7. oversharpens
  8. oversharpness
  9. overshave
  10. overshaved
  11. overshaven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversharpening (page history and authors); oversharpen (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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