Synonyms of the word sweeten


SWEETENALTER - CHANGE - DULCIFY - DULCORATE - EDULCORATE - MODIFY

sweeten

  • v. (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
  • v. (transitive) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings.
  • v. (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
  • v. (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
  • v. (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
  • v. (transitive) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
  • v. (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
  • v. (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
  • v. (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
  • v. (intransitive) To become sweet.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

dulcify

  • v. To sweeten the taste of.
  • v. To make sweeter or more pleasant.
  • v. (obsolete) Toneutralise the acidity of.
  • v. (transitive) To mollify or make peaceful.

dulcorate

  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.

edulcorate

  • v. (rare) To sweeten (in all senses).
  • v. (rare) To free from acidity.

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

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