sweeten

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
Strain and sweeten, and flavor with lemon juice; a little lemon peel may be added while boiling if desired Apple Water._--Take 2 or 3 tart apples.

View all »
Definitions (24)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (10)

  1. transitive verb To make sweet or sweeter by adding sugar, honey, saccharin, or another sweet substance.
  2. transitive verb To make more pleasant or agreeable.
  3. transitive verb To soften or soothe: sweetened her mood.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (10)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (2)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Speaking of supporting cast, Layman promised that he and Guillory will be developing plenty of new players to help sweeten or sour Tony Chu's outlook on his task of taking a formaldehyde-filled bite out of crime. —  Comic Book Resources
  • The next year he was still handing out toothbrushes, but he was including a package of Dentyne gum with them so as to "sweeten" the deal. —  Stupid Evil Bastard
  • Thus she link'd Her charming syllables, till indistinct Their music came to my o'er-sweeten'd soul And then she hover'd over me, and stole So near, that if no nearer it had been This furrow'd visage thou hadst never seen 450 Young man of Latmos! —  Endymion A Poetic Romance
  • 196. HOW TO MAKE GROUND-RICE MILK Put a pint of milk with a bit of cinnamon to boil, mix a large table-spoonful of ground rice quite smooth with a tea-cupful of milk, pour this into the boiling milk, stirring quickly all the time in order to render it smooth; add sugar to sweeten, and stir the ground-rice milk on the fire while boiling for ten minutes. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
  • 201. HOW TO MAKE A SAGO PUDDING Soak two table-spoonfuls of pearl sago with a tea-spoonful of hot milk, in a covered basin, for a quarter of an hour; then add a very little grated nutmeg or lemon-peel, sugar to sweeten, and an egg; beat up all together until thoroughly mixed, and then boil the pudding in a buttered basin or tea-cup, as directed in preceding cases No. —  A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 80 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Used in the same contextWord Family

sweeten:   sweetening ·  sweetened ·  sweetens
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈswitn/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

aim · pennance · parka · hen · pythagorean

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

procrastinate · its not like im ugly people tell me im pretty · be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread