sweeten
see also: Sweeten
Pronunciation
Sweeten
Proper noun
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see also: Sweeten
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈswiːtən/
sweeten (sweetens, present participle sweetening; past and past participle sweetened)
- (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
- to sweeten tea
- (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
- to sweeten life
- to sweeten friendship
- (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
- to sweeten the temper
- (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
- to sweeten the cares of life
- 1827, [John Keble], “Last Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], OCLC 1029642537 ↗, page 99 ↗:
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- (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- 1695, John Dryden, De Arte Graphica
- 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.
- 1695, John Dryden, De Arte Graphica
- (transitive) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
- to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
- to sweeten the air
- (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
- to dry and sweeten soils
- (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
- to sweeten water, butter, or meat
- (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
- to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
- (intransitive) To become sweet.
- (to make warm and fertile) sour
- French: adoucir
- German: süßen
- Italian: zuccherare
- Portuguese: adoçar, adocicar
- Russian: подсла́щивать
- Spanish: azucarar
- German: versüßen
- German: süß werden
Sweeten
Proper noun
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