to sweeten
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- verb
- /ˈswitən/
- You can sweeten your tea by adding honey or sugar.
- sweetened beverages
- sweetened drinks
- sweetened tea
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Watch on YouTubeIt's been used to sweeten teas in medicine for thousands of years.
- It's been used to sweeten teas in medicine for thousands of years.
- Probiotic support vaginal health and freshness while pineapple extract sweetens the deal.
- So I know it's very common to use apples and pears to sweeten up curries.
- So it's one of those things that there there is such a minute chance that is helping sweeten the tomatoes that it's not worth your time, your effort or your money.
- And they would just acquire all these fleets of aging fighters, kind of sweeten them up with with better avionics, more capability.
Examples
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Not only is he still interested, he's sweetening his offer.
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One thing that we did to sweeten this is we use monk fruit instead of sugar, right?
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All right, listen, did anything happen with the the suggestions around this, the how to sweeten your coffee?
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It's been used to sweeten teas in medicine for thousands of years.
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I sweetened it for ya.
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Most of them are locals who make their living selling sweetened tea that is served with sugar cakes.
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Officials in some of these communities are sweetening the offer with rebates on local taxes.
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So I know it's very common to use apples and pears to sweeten up curries.
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Children went by themselves to these tea shacks and brought sweetened tea in old empty bottles to everyone back at home.
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Ayshatu prepared a hefty brew of Chinese gunpowder tea, heavily sweetened and served in shot glasses from a tiny teapot.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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To add a sweet white substance from plants to food or drink to make it sweet
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To put the sweet liquid bees make on food to make it sweeter
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To make food or drink taste sweeter
To make something taste sweeter
To make food or drink taste sweeter
To change plant starch and other plant parts into sugar using enzymes or chemicals
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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Make an unpleasant thing seem easier to accept by adding something pleasant
How Pleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweeten comes from the simple word sweet ('pleasant to taste') and the ending -en ('make'), so to sweeten food is to add sugar and to sweeten an offer is to make it more pleasant.