Word.ws English Dictionary

presweeten

presweeten verb: to sweeten in advance.

Verb

presweeten (third-person singular simple present presweetens, present participle presweetening, simple past and past participle presweetened)

  1. To sweeten in advance.
    • She smiled as she remembered how she had always placed the sugar in Phil's cup to presweeten it.2013, Doug Taylor, When the Trumpet Sounds, page 376

Forms of presweeten

third-person singular presentpresweetens
present participlepresweetening
past participlepresweetened
pastpresweetened

Origin of presweeten

From pre- + sweeten.

Questions about presweeten

What does presweeten mean?
Presweeten means to sweeten in advance.
What part of speech is presweeten?
Presweeten is a verb.
What is the past tense of presweeten?
The past tense of presweeten is presweetened.

Words near presweeten in the dictionary

  1. presutural
  2. preswab
  3. preswabbed
  4. preswabbing
  5. preswallow
  6. presweeten
  7. presweetened
  8. presweetening
  9. presweetens
  10. preswell
  11. preswelled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: presweeten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “presweeten.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/presweeten. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.