sweetening
/S W IY1 T AH0 N IH0 NG/- 1
To make sweet to the taste.
“to sweeten tea”
- 2
To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
“to sweeten friendship”
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To make mild or kind; to soften.
“to sweeten the temper”
- 4
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
“to sweeten the cares of life”
- 5
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- 6
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
“to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected”
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To make warm and fertile.
“to dry and sweeten soils”
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To restore to purity; to free from taint.
“to sweeten water, butter, or meat”
- 9
To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
- 10
To become sweet.
Antonyms
- 1
The process of making something sweeter.
- 2
A sweetener.
“Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.”
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweeten, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweetening