Sweeten
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.
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
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.
To become sweet.
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Sweeten Quotations
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.
Josh Billings
Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.
Francis Quarles
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Sweeten Translations
sweeten in Spanish is endulzar
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