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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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sweetening" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1 dessertspoonful lemon juice, 1 tablespoonful Almond cream or Cashew nut cream. Bring milk nearly to boiling point, and add lemon juice. Let stand till it curdles. Strain and stir in the nut cream, also sweetening to taste. ...
— Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) - Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. • Mrs. Mill

... gentleman, of the age of five or six and twenty at the most; who can serve in the nature of a gentleman-usher, and hath little legs of purpose, and a black satin suit of his own, to go before her in; which suit, for the more sweetening, now lies in lavender; and can hide his face with her fan, if need require; or sit in the cold at the stair foot for her, as well as another gentleman: let her subscribe her name and place, and diligent ...
— Every Man Out Of His Humour • Ben Jonson

... of the softening effects of advancing age have struck me very much in what I have heard or seen here and elsewhere. I just now spoke of the sweetening process that authors undergo. Do you know that in the gradual passage from maturity to helplessness the harshest characters sometimes have a period in which they are gentle and placid as young children? I have ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes

... impediment, stumbled, staggered, fell under the feet of the racers, and crawled away minus not money and credit only, but all his philosophy about helping the poor, maimed in spirit, his pride swollen with bruises, his heart and his speech soured beyond all sweetening. ...
— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable

... ripe cranberries, so thick that we crushed them with every step, grew on the hills, and we picked our pailful and stewed them, using crystallose (a small phial of which I had in my dunnage bag) as sweetening. A pound of pemmican a day with a bit of tallow is sustaining, but not filling, and left us with a constant, gnawing hunger. These berries were a godsend, and sour as they were we filled up on them and for once gratified our appetites. We had a great desire, too, for something sweet, ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace


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