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SWEETENED
sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored
(adjective) with sweetening added
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
sweetened
simple past tense and past participle of sweeten
Adjective
sweetened (comparative more sweetened, superlative most sweetened)
made to taste sweet
containing sweetener
(figuratively) made more appealing or more attractive with incentives
Source: Wiktionary
SWEETEN
Sweet"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sweetened; p. pr. & vb. n. Sweetening.] Etym: [See Sweet, a.]
1. To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
2. To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
3. To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
4. To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. Dryden. And sweeten every secret tear. Keble.
5. To soften to the eye; to make delicate. Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other. Dryden.
6. To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
7. To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
8. To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Sweet"en, v. i.
Definition: To become sweet. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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