Sweeten

Definition of Sweeten

Sweet´en

v. t.	1.	To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. [imp. & p. p. Sweetened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.]
	2.	To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
	3.	To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
	4.	To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. And sweeten every secret tear. - Keble.
	5.	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.
	6.	To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
	7.	To make warm and fertile; - opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
	8.	To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
v. i.	1.	To become sweet.

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