sweeten
IPA: swˈitʌn
noun
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
- (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
- (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
- (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
- (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- (transitive) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
- (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
- (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
- (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
- (intransitive) To become sweet.
- (music, transitive) To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
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Examples of "sweeten" in Sentences
- It is sweetened with sugar.
- Honey was added to sweeten a cake.
- Saccharin is an artificial sweetener.
- A touch of frost will sweeten the berries.
- The cook put in the sweetener in the bowl.
- All Canadian presents sweeten the holidays.
- Honey is the only known sweetener in the Maya diet.
- It was a sweetener, the dipeptide with phenylalanine.
- Tab was originally sweetened with cyclamates and saccharin.
- Also it is used as a sweetener and in the preparation of desserts.