sweeten

verbB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sweetens

V_ing/Gerund

sweetening

V_ed/pp

sweetened

1.
(transitive)To make sweet to the taste.
to sweeten tea
2.
(transitive)To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
to sweeten life
to sweeten friendship
3.
(transitive)To make mild or kind; to soften.
to sweeten the temper
4.
(transitive)To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
to sweeten the cares of life
5.
(transitive)To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
6.
(transitive)To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
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to sweeten the air
7.
(transitive)To make warm and fertile.
to dry and sweeten soils
8.
(transitive)(agriculture, transitive) To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
9.
(transitive)To restore to purity; to free from taint.
to sweeten water, butter, or meat
10.
(transitive)To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
11.
(intransitive)To become sweet.
12.
(transitive)(music, transitive) To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.

Từ liên quan

Trái nghĩa

sourto make warm and fertile sour

Cùng gốc / liên quan

besweetenoutsweeten oversweeten presweeten resweeten sweetener unsweetenartificially sweetenedback-sweetensweeten the pillsweeten the potsweeten up

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Nguồn gốc từ

From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native doucen and endoucen, borrowed from adoucir and endoucir (to sweeten).