sweetens

Meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of sweeten

sweeten

  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.

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