strop

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of STROP

to make sharp or sharper <at the museum they showed us how men used to strop razors with leather bands before the days of disposable blades>

Synonyms edge, grind, hone, stone, strop, whet

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Near Antonyms buff, burnish, gloss, polish, round, smooth

Antonyms blunt, dull

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