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Sweetening   /swˈitənɪŋ/  /swˈitnɪŋ/   Listen
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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"Sweetening" Quotes from Famous Books



... admiration for the historical character and teaching of Jesus Christ; he urged the example of His "mildness and sweet reasonableness." He taught that the best way of extending Christ's kingdom on earth was by sweetening the character and brightening the lives of the men and women ...
— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell
... in with the trout, which they dressed, washed, and finally salted down in a barrel. This required but a few minutes, and while they worked Mrs. Abel prepared a simple luncheon of bread, sufficient tea for a brewing, and a bottle of molasses for sweetening, and these, with their tea pail and cups and hunting bags, they carried down to the skiff, followed by Mrs. Abel's wishes for a pleasant ...
— Bobby of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace
... their services were very light.[27] When the third of the above obligations, the gafol or tribute, was paid in kind it was most commonly made in corn; and next came honey, one of the most important articles of the Middle Ages, as it was used for both lighting and sweetening purposes. Ale was also common, and poultry and eggs, and sometimes the ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler
... an' sugar." The arms of the bartender worked like a faker's in a side show as he set out the glass with its little quota of "short sweetening" and a cut-glass decanter, and sent a half-tumbler of water spinning along from the upper end of the bar with ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... always safe or wise for them to marry, nor need it necessarily wreck their peace to live apart. Often what seems the best affection of our hearts does more for us by being thwarted than if granted its fulfilment and prove a failure which embitters two lives instead of sweetening one." ...
— Moods • Louisa May Alcott


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