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To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. |
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To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as,
to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. |
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To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the
temper. |
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To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to
sweeten the cares of life. |
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To soften to the eye; to make delicate. |
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To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter;
as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten
the air. |
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To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry
and sweeten soils. |
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To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten
water, butter, or meat. |
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To become sweet. |
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