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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



... the refreshing waters come rushing down? The answer is very plain. You know why. There is a plug in the pipe. Something in us clogging up the channel and nothing can get through. How shall we have power, abundant, life-giving, sweetening our own lives, and changing those we touch? The answer is easy for me to give—it will be much harder for us all to do—pull out the plug. Get out the thing ...
— Quiet Talks on Power • S.D. Gordon
... our calling is luck; and all the best sealing stations I ever heard of, have been blundered on by some chap who has lost his way. I despise lunars, if the truth must be said; yet I like to go straight to my port of destination. Take a little sugar with your rum-and-water—we Vineyard folks like sweetening." ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper
... extremes marked by Miriam beating her timbrels, and Cleopatra applying the asp; Cornelia, caring for nothing but her Roman jewels; Guyon, rapt in God; Lucrezia Borgia raging with bowl and dagger, and Florence Nightingale sweetening the memory of the ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss
... or powdered sugar is white and clean. The presence of glucose should be suspected in sugar sold below the market price; it is perfectly harmless, but has a sweetening power of only about two-thirds that of sugar and is added on account of its cheapness and to increase ...
— The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) • Various
... reception. Here amid all the feastings and delights the great official discoursed to the young noble about the duties of his rank and the necessity of supporting the King's government and establishing the authority of law over the distracted country, sweetening his sermon with protestations of his high regard for the Douglas name, whose house, kin, and friends were more dear to him than any in Scotland, and of affection to the young Earl himself. Perhaps this was the turning-point, though the young gallant in his heyday of power and self-confidence ...
— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant


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