Associations to the word «Sweeten»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
SWEETEN, verb. (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
SWEETEN, verb. (intransitive) To become sweet.
SWEETEN THE POT, verb. (idiomatic) To increase a wager.
SWEETEN THE POT, verb. (idiomatic) To make something more desirable.
SWEETEN UP, verb. (idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste.
Dictionary definition
SWEETEN, verb. Make sweeter in taste.
SWEETEN, verb. Make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.