sweetens

Verb

sweeten (third-person singular simple present sweetens, present participle sweetening, simple past and past participle sweetened)

1. (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
   • to sweeten tea
2. (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
   • to sweeten life
3. (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
   • to sweeten the temper
4. (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
   • to sweeten the cares of life
5. (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
   • Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.1695, John Dryden, De Arte Graphica
6. (transitive) To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
   • to sweeten the air

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