whet
verb (used with object)
to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
have been whetting
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present perfect progressiveof whet.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps you have been whetting your teeth at Easter and Michaelmas?—the great book-epidemic times at Leipzig and Frankfort!
From The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Schiller, Friedrich
