sweetening
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (3)
- something added to foods to make them taste sweeterSynonyms: sweetener
- an improvement that makes something more agreeableSynonyms: enhancement
- the act of adding a sweetener to food
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea. [1913 Webster]
2.To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship. [1913 Webster]
3.To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper. [1913 Webster]
4.To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
And sweeten every secret tear.— Keble.[1913 Webster]
5.To soften to the eye; to make delicate. [1913 Webster]
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.[1913 Webster]
6.To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air. [1913 Webster]
7.To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils. [1913 Webster]
8.To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
1.The act of making sweet. [1913 Webster]
2.That which sweetens. [1913 Webster]