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presweetening

presweetening is the present participle and gerund of presweeten.

Meaning of presweeten

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

Questions about presweetening

What is presweetening the present participle and gerund of?
Presweetening is the present participle and gerund of presweeten.

Words near presweetening in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: presweetening (page history and authors); 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.

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