Sweeten

Definition:

(a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
(a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
(a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
(a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
(a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
(a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
(a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
(a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
(v. i.) To become sweet.

Compare sweeten with other words:

dulcoration vs. sweeten

dulcorate vs. sweeten

dulcification vs. sweeten

edulcorate vs. sweeten

attractive vs. sweeten

sweeten vs. taint

restore vs. sweeten

purity vs. sweeten

sweeten vs. warm

fertile vs. sweeten

noxious vs. sweeten

pure vs. sweeten

salubrious vs. sweeten

laborious vs. sweeten

painful vs. sweeten

kind vs. sweeten

grateful vs. sweeten

mild vs. sweeten

pleasing vs. sweeten

sweeten vs. taste

sweeten vs. sweetener

addulce vs. sweeten

sugar vs. sweeten

sling vs. sweeten

sweet vs. sweeten

honey vs. sweeten