sweeten

Speech parts

1. sweeten - Adjective

2. sweeten - Verb

3. Sweeten - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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

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

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

To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

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

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

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

To become sweet.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

dulcify edulcorate dulcorate mull improve sugar ease honey gentle alleviate temper mitigate relax candy appease
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Antonyms

sour salt deflate contract destroy decrease
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Hypernyms

change alter modify change taste

Hyponyms

mull sugar honey candy glaze saccharify

Phrases with the word

sweeten the deal sweeten the kitty

Derivatives

sweetened sweetening

Examples

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. Francis Bacon

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. Francis Quarles

We're gonna have to sweeten some of these jokes. You know what sweeten means, right? That's a showbiz term for "add sugar to." Mitch Hedberg

A strawberry blossom will not sweeten dry bread. Kiganda Proverb

All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting. Italian Proverb

A cup must be bitter that a smile will not sweeten. Maltese Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sweetcorn bread sweetcure sweete sweeten the deal sweeten the kitty sweeten the pill