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(1):

(a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

(2):

(a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.

(3):

(a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.

(4):

(a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.

(5):

(a.) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

(6):

(a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.

(7):

(a.) To make warm and fertile; - opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.

(8):

(a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.

(9):

(v. i.) To become sweet.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sweeten'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sweeten.html. 1828.
 
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