STROPPED Synonyms

• (of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state

• ended or brought to an end

• (of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected

• having a surface coating or finish applied

• brought to ruin

• perfected or made shiny and smooth

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed

• (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• having the point made sharp

• made sharp or sharper

• an ardent follower and admirer

• a soft thick undyed leather from the skins of e.g. buffalo or oxen

• bare skin

• a medium to dark tan color

• an implement consisting of soft material mounted on a block; used for polishing (as in manicuring)

• of the yellowish-beige color of buff leather

• strike, beat repeatedly

• polish and make shiny

• a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors

• a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc.

• sharpen with a hone

• make perfect or complete

• (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand

• the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

• a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

• a light touch

• a light touch with the hands

• (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club

• the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew

• anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

• a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush

• any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing

• a single complete movement

• touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions

• strike a ball with a smooth blow

• row at a particular rate

• treat gingerly or carefully

• make keen or more acute

• sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone