Definition of Sweeten

(v. i.)
To become sweet.
  

(a.)
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
  

(a.)
To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
  

(a.)
To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
  

(a.)
To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
  

(a.)
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
  

(a.)
To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
  

(a.)
To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
  

(a.)
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
  

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sweeten
\sweet"en\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. sweetened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. sweetening.] [see sweet, a.]
1. to make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
2. to make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. to make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
4. to make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. and sweeten every secret tear.
5. to soften to the eye; to make delicate. correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
6. to make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
7. to make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
8. to restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
sweeten
\sweet"en\, v. i. to become sweet.
sweeten
v
1. make sweeter in taste [syn: dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate]
[ant: sour]

2. make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal"

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Meluso = v. to sweeten

Melysiannu = v. to dulcify, to sweeten

Melysu = v. to sweeten

Sugro = v. to sugar, to sweeten

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Verb
1. make sweeter in taste
(synonym) dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
(antonym) sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify
(hypernym) change taste
(hyponym) honey
(derivation) sweetening, sweetener
2. make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal"
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(derivation) bait, come-on, hook, lure, sweetener

to remove sulfur or sulfur compounds from gas or oil. Sweet gas a natural gas containing little or no hydrogen sulfide.

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