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verb

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

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

To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. "And sweeten every secret tear."

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."

To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

To make warm and fertile; opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

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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"Sweeten" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am a cuckold, remember I am only mine own, you knave—there is too little blood in her cheeks to have sent her astray elsewhere. Well, I will bear mine antler'd honours as I may—gold shall gild them; and for my disgrace, revenge shall sweeten it. Ay, revenge—and ...

— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott

... her alone!' These were thy words. Need not, Varus, the streets of Rome a cleansing river to purify them? Dost thou think them well enough, till all the fountains have been let loose to purge them? Is Tarquin's sewer a place to dwell in? Could all the waters of Rome sweeten it? The people of Rome are fouler than her highways. The sewers are sweeter than the very worshippers of our temples. Thou knowest somewhat of this. Wast ever present at the rites of Bacchus?—or those of the Cyprian goddess? Nay, blush not yet. Didst ever ...

— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware

... feeling that the Rockies have a rare mountain wealth of their own. They are not to be compared with the Selkirks or the Alps or any other unlike range of mountains. The Rockies are not a type, but an individuality, singularly rich in mountain scenes which stir one's blood and which strengthen and sweeten life. ...

— Wild Life on the Rockies • Enos A. Mills

... whispers on its pebbly way, "Not to myself alone I sparkling glide; I scatter health and life on every side, And strew the fields with herb and floweret gay. I sing unto the common, bleak and bare, My gladsome tune; I sweeten and refresh the languid air In ...

— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... breakfast, one of our company invested five dollars in five loaves of bread. After devouring three of them, his appetite was sufficiently appeased to enable him to negotiate the exchange of one of the two remaining for enough molasses to sweeten the other, which he ate at once. These loaves, which were huckstered along the lines by venders from Richmond, it must be understood, were not full-size, but a compromise between a ...

— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

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