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verb

Sweeten v. t. (past & past part. sweetened; pres. part. sweetening)

1.

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

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."

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."

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.

Sweeten v. i. To become sweet.

noun

Sweetening n.

1.

The act of making sweet.

2.

That which sweetens.

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Etymology of 'Sweetening'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sweetening" Quotes from Famous Books

... be feared than shipwreck. On every fine day the decks below and the cockpit were washed, dried with stoves, and sprinkled with vinegar. Care was taken to prevent the crew from sleeping in wet clothes. At frequent intervals beds, chests, and bags were opened out and exposed to the sweetening influences of fresh air and sunshine. Personal cleanliness was enforced. Lime-juice and other anti-scorbutics were frequently served out: a precautionary measure which originated in Cook's day, and which down to our own times has caused all British sailors ...

— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott

... it as you fix Bob's, Miss Liz," Jane interposed readily enough to save the situation, and at the next opportunity she turned in a confidential undertone: "We don't use 'long sweetening' down here, Dale. People in the valleys use sugar exclusively—'short sweetening,' as you call it. They don't have to grind and stew up corn-stalks to get sorghum for their coffee, as we used to do. But I remember how good that molasses—that 'long sweetening'—was," she added, ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... vexations which have arisen in all ages from the attachment of the sexes, place the vast amount of happiness which is derived from this source—the basis of the whole circle of the domestic affections, the sweetening principle of life, the prompter of all our most generous feelings, and even of our most virtuous resolves—and every ill that can be traced to it is but as dust in the balance. And here, also, we must be on our guard against judging from what we see in the world at a particular era. As reason and ...

— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... cavities which contained rain-water, during most of the year, now contained that which was not quite so palatable. This was a great temporary inconvenience, though the heavy showers of the past night had done a good deal towards sweetening the face of the rock, and had reduced most of the pools to a liquid that was brackish rather than salt. A great many fish lay scattered about, on the island, and Mark hastened ...

— The Crater • James Fenimore Cooper

... with you, Kayak! With El's sourdoughs you don't need sweetening." Boreland laughed. "We can use bear fat instead of butter now, for that old devil certainly was fat. We'll try some of it out. Of course we won't need much, for the schooner will be in any day now. We'll smoke part of it and put the rest down in salt." He ...

— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby

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