sweeten

Meaning

1. (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
2. (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
3. (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
4. (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
5. (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
6. (transitive) To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
7. (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
8. (transitive) To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
9. (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
10. (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
11. (intransitive) To become sweet.
12. (transitive) To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.

Synonyms

sugar

dulcify

dulcorate

edulcorate

make sweet

make pleasant

become sweet

sugarcoat

make tasty

flatter

flavor

glorify

mollify

mull

pacify

pad

please

prettify

saccharify

smooth

soften

sour

sweetened

tinsel

window-dress

romanticise

add sugar

make agreeable

render sweet

allay

euphemise

appease

blunt

candy

🍬

color

colour

console

dull

embellish

Translations

addolcire

adoucir

zuccherare

édulcorer

sucrer

süßen

dolcificare

endulzar

adoçar

endolcir

versüßen

edulcorare

azucarar

dulcificar

confitar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈswiːtən/

Etymology

From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).