sweeten

Meanings

Verb

make sweeter in taste
make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable
- "sweeten a deal"
To make sweet to the taste.
To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
To make mild or kind; to soften.
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
To make warm and fertile.
To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
To restore to purity; to free from taint.
To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
To become sweet.
To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.

Origin / Etymology

From sweet + -en. Eclipsed and superseded non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).

Synonyms

dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate

Antonyms

sour

Scrabble Score: 10

sweeten is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
sweeten is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sweeten is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 11

sweeten is a valid Words With Friends word