Crossword clues for sweetened
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweeten \Sweet"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sweetened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.] [See Sweet, a.]
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.
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To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
--Dryden.And sweeten every secret tear.
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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.
--Dryden. 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.
Wiktionary
1 made to taste sweet 2 containing sweetener 3 (label en figuratively) made more appealing or more attractive with incentives v
(en-past of: sweeten)
WordNet
Usage examples of "sweetened".
The sweetened varieties have proved popular with American eaters, and Hoisin sauce is always served with Peking Duck in this country.
The veil of the abbess was, however, thrown half back, and discovered a countenance, whose chaste dignity was sweetened by the smile of welcome, with which she addressed the Countess, whom she led, with Blanche and Mademoiselle Bearn, into the convent parlour, while the Count and Henri were conducted by the Superior to the refectory.
What was drunk was highly acidic, and was spiced, sweetened, and usually consumed for health.
Instead, they consume gallons of qishr, a beverage made from the ground husks of coffee beans flavored with a healthy dose of ground ginger and sweetened with sugar.
Marco Polo wrote of vendors hawking threads of sweetened ginger on Chinese streets.
It works best with Australian crystallized stem ginger, which comes packaged in cubes, and a rich sweetened chocolate such as Callebaut of Belgium, available in bricks.
And 3 times he sent her a plate of riz biscuit sweetened, sweetened too sweet almost, he went too fur in this and I see it.
Never till I stood as the Lily and thy voice sweetened the name of love in my ears, heard I aught of delicate delightfulness, like the sound of their gratitude.
A young cleric approached him, offering a mug of hot tisane, heavily sweetened with sugar.
The old man, Browyn, listened, and at dusk led Duvo back to his cabin, where they ate a simple meal of hot oats and milk sweetened with fruit syrup.
The scenes of sorrow through which we have been passing have brought Ernest nearer to me than ever, and I can see that this varied discipline has softened and sweetened his character.
Those old poisoners, the artists and thinkers, had sweetened the death-brew with their honeyed rhetoric, which would have been found out and rejected by every conscience with disgust, if it had not been for their falsehoods.
While the party partook of a collation of fruit and coffee, the horns, placed in a distant part of the woods, where an echo sweetened and prolonged their melancholy tones, broke softly on the stillness of the scene.
The joint aches warning of an approaching storm had not sweetened his temper in the least.
The salve heated as it sank into his bruised skin, and its fragrance sweetened the dampness of the room.