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sweeten

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Word definitions for sweeten in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweeten \Sweet"en\, v. i. To become sweet. --Bacon.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. make sweeter in taste [syn: dulcify , edulcorate , dulcorate ] [ant: sour ] make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make sweet to the taste. 2 (context transitive English) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings. 3 (context transitive English) To make mild or kind; to soften. 4 (context transitive English) To make less ...

Usage examples of sweeten.

Pearl, unpack and hang everything up carefully, iron things that had wrinkled, take a bath, put on the pajamas she usually wore when she slept without me, get in bed with Pearl, have a half cup of frozen chocolate yogurt sweetened with aspartame, and watch a movie.

Likewise a hot infusion, made by pouring half-a-pint of boiling water on a teaspoonful of the bruised seeds will comfort belly ache in the infant, if given in teaspoonful doses sweetened with sugar, and will prove an active remedy in promoting female monthly regularity, if taken at the periodical times, in doses of a wineglassful three times in the day.

Next to the swan-necked silver ewer containing the coffee rested a plate of sliced fresh fruit, a keep-warm basket filled with sweetened bread, and a three-tiered dish containing colorful miniature cakelets and cookies.

Then she took small handfuls of the doughy root starch, mixed with the berries, the sweet, flavorful licorice-fern root stalk, and the sweetening and thickening sap from the birch cambium, and dropped them on the hot rocks.

Before sweetening his cup, she enquired whether he liked his coffee very sweet.

Still, however, he flattered himself that ere long, to her youthful mind and native chearfulness, tranquillity, if not felicity, would imperceptibly return, from such a union for exertion of filial and sisterly duties: that industry would sweeten rest, virtue gild privation, and self-approvance convert every sacrifice into enjoyment.

I hated the feel of the gol under my feet, the dark cloying scent that seemed to sweeten my tongue.

When the immense teak tub was full of water, perfumed with miada grass and sweetened with gomuti sugar, we both stripped off our silks and got into it together.

As if to sweeten the bitter pill I had to swallow, he told me how the Empress of Austria had ordered him to leave Vienna in twenty-four hours, merely because he had complimented the Archduchess Christina on behalf of Prince Louis of Wurtemberg.

I can easily contrive to drink my coffee well sweetened, and to make him drain the bitter cup.

The sweetened varieties have proved popular with American eaters, and Hoisin sauce is always served with Peking Duck in this country.

It is not blasphemy to hope that Heaven More perfectly will give those nameless joys Which throb within the pulses of the blood And sweeten all that bitterness which Earth Infuses in the heaven-born soul.

Richard brought them their coffee and kirsch, and Condy showed Blix how to burn a lump of sugar and sweeten the coffee with syrup.

Given the interest he has in you with lagniappe like Rallen thrown in to sweeten the bait?

When cool cover with a meringue or with whipped cream sweetened and flavored with vanilla.