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unsweeten

unsweeten verb: to remove or lower the sweetness of.

Verb

unsweeten (third-person singular simple present unsweetens, present participle unsweetening, simple past and past participle unsweetened)

  1. (transitive) To remove or lower the sweetness of.

Forms of unsweeten

third-person singular presentunsweetens
present participleunsweetening
past participleunsweetened
pastunsweetened

Origin of unsweeten

From un- + sweeten.

Questions about unsweeten

What does unsweeten mean?
Unsweeten means to remove or lower the sweetness of.
What part of speech is unsweeten?
Unsweeten is a verb.
What is the past tense of unsweeten?
The past tense of unsweeten is unsweetened.

Words near unsweeten in the dictionary

  1. unsweated
  2. unsweating
  3. unsweats
  4. unsweepable
  5. unsweet
  6. unsweeten
  7. unsweetened
  8. unsweetening
  9. unsweetens
  10. unsweetly
  11. unsweetness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsweeten (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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