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.
Advertisement

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.
  • It's also possible to "sweeten" the amendment in order to avoid potential resistance.

Related Links

synonyms for sweetendescribing words for sweeten
Advertisement
#AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz

© 2024 Copyright: WordPapa