заточи́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• immure verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
• sharpen verb To make something sharp or sharper.

Senses

заточи́ть is used for these senses in English:

• immure (transitive) To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
• sharpen (transitive, sometimes, figurative) To make sharp.

immure — full definition

1. verb To cloister, confine, imprison or hole up: to lock someone up or seclude oneself behind walls.
2. verb To put or bury within a wall.
3. verb To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.

sharpen — full definition

1. verb To make something sharp or sharper.
2. verb To become sharp or sharper.

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