1. sweeten - Adjective
2. sweeten - Verb
3. Sweeten - Proper noun
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 dictionaryChildren 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