sweetening
- noun
- /ˈswitənɪŋ/
:
endulzante
Examples
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I, I think that if you use some honey, that might be another way of sweetening without like going too far over the edge.
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So fruit is doing all the sweetening, and thank God for bananas!
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I think before cane sugar we used to get most of our sweetening with molasses, which used to be stored in these big above ground tubs.
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She added a little sweetening to her tea to enhance the flavor.
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For a healthier dessert, you can use fruit as a natural sweetening option instead of sugar.
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The recipe calls for honey as a sweetening agent in the sauce to balance the acidity.
Synonyms
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1.0
Thick sweet liquid used to make food or drink taste better
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4.1
A simple sugar in honey and ripe fruit that people use to make food sweet
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2.0
A substance added to food or drink to make it taste sweeter
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3.5
A brand name for a sweetener used instead of sugar in drinks and food
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4.4
A plant with very sweet leaves and the sweetener made from those leaves
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6.3
A very sweet man-made white powder used instead of sugar with no calories
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5.6
A sweet substance people use instead of sugar in food and drink
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1.8
A sweet liquid made by boiling sugar and water
Antonyms
How Sweet
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sweetening comes from the simple word sweet ('pleasant taste') plus -en ('make') and -ing, so a sweetening is something you add that makes food or drink taste sweet.