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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