SWEETENS
Verb
sweetens
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sweeten
Anagrams
• tweeness
Proper noun
Sweetens
plural of Sweeten
Anagrams
• tweeness
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