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Sweetened   /swˈitənd/   Listen
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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.






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"Sweetened" Quotes from Famous Books



... be added a little sugar; and if the child is old enough to observe the color, just milk enough to change the appearance. Another preparation for the same purpose consists of rennet whey, a little sweetened, and "disguised, if ...
— The Young Mother - Management of Children in Regard to Health • William A. Alcott

... [Cheers.] This may be an extreme instance, but it is not an exceptional one. Any man who has had anything to do with the service will tell you that the battalion is better for music at every turn, happier, more easily handled, with greater zest in its daily routine, if that routine is sweetened with melody and rhythm—melody for the mind ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... porpoises at sea, or our Indians spear salmon in the lakes. Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple pies or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks—a delicious kind of cake at present scarce known in this city, except ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

... mashed in cream; such boiled onions, turnips, Hubbard squash, succotash, stewed tomatoes, celery, cranberries, "currant jell!" Oh! and to "top off" with, a mince pie to die for and a pudding (new to John, but just you try it some time) of steamed Indian meal and fruit, with a sauce of cream sweetened ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott

... Sir!" The boiling here is conducted in one huge, open vat. A cup and saucer are brought for you to taste the juice, which is dipped out of the boiling vat for your service. It is very like balm-tea, unduly sweetened; and after a hot sip or so you return the cup with thanks. A loud noise, as of cracking of whips and of hurrahs, guides you to the sugar-mill, where the crushing of the cane goes on in the jolliest fashion. The building is octagonal and open. Its chief feature ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 25, November, 1859 • Various


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