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Definition: Sweeten |
SweetenVerb1. Make sweeter in taste. 2. Make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sweeten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Sweeten \Sweet"en\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Sweetened; Sweetening.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SweetenSynonyms: dulcify (v), dulcorate (v), edulcorate (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: sour (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pain | Make things pleasant, popularize, gild the pill, sugar-coat the pill, sweeten. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sweeten |
| English words defined with "sweeten": Addulce ♦ cachou ♦ Edulcorant ♦ honey ♦ Kissing comfit ♦ Nectarize ♦ saccharify, sugar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sweeten": SMOKING-PIPE LINER, SMOKING-PIPE MAKER, sorbitol. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sweeten": Mulse. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | And all the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten this little hand! (Macbeth; writing credit: Roman Polanski; William Shakespeare) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Christian Nevell Bovee | The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. |
Josh Billings | Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. |
Quarles | Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The purple prunes soften and sweeten. |
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| "Sweeten" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "Sweeten" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 73.33% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 21.67% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 60 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "sweeten" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sweeten | Last name | 1,000 | 13,906 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "sweeten": sweeten tea ♦ sweeten toil. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
jodie sweeten | 73 |
madylin sweeten | 47 |
jodi sweeten | 18 |
sweeten | 8 |
sweeten twin | 5 |
jody sweeten | 5 |
sawyer sweeten | 4 |
madilyn sweeten | 4 |
jodie picture sweeten | 3 |
jodie pic sweeten | 2 |
madelyn sweeten | 2 |
full house jodi sweeten | 2 |
condensed milk sweeten | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sweeten"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | ëmbëlsoj (candy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هدأ (allay, appease, assuage, attemper, becalm, calm, calm down, cool, die down, dust, ease, hush, keep quiet, lull, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, quench, quieten, relieve, rest, salve, settle, settle down, simmer, smooth, sober, soothe, stay, steady, still, subside, supple, tranquillize), لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, temper, tone down, urbanity), حلى (adorn, candy, sugar, sugar coat), سكر (candy, conserve, fluster, get drunk, intoxicant, liquor, sloshed, souse, sugar, take to drink, tank up), طهر (circumcise, decontaminate, depurate, disinfect, exorcise, exorcize, mop up, pureness, purge, purify, rid, sanitize, scour, show, sterilize), جعله أحلى, داهن (adulate, blandish, butter up, cajole, flatter, flattering, sop, sweet talk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | облекчавам (allay, alleviate, ameliorate, appease, comfort, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, help, lighten, mitigate, palliate, redress, relieve, soothe, unburden, unload), наторявам (manure, nourish), проветрявам (aerate, air, ventilate, weather), подслаждам (dulcify, honey, season, sugar, sugar coat), изпълвам с благоухание (embalm, perfume, scent), давам рушвет. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 变" (sweetened, sweetening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zpříjemnit (dulcify), osladit (Mull). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملایم کردن (Gentle, Modulate, Soften, Temper), شیرین کردن (Candy, Soften, Sugar), شیرین شدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sulostuttaa, sokeroida (sugar), makeuttaa, imeltää. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sucrer, soulager, purifier, apaiser, amadouer, édulcorer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | versüßen (to sweeten), süßen (dulcify, sugar, to dulcify, to sweeten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γλυκαίνω. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למתוק (become sweet), למ'" (give delight), לע"ן (delight, improve, make tender, refine), ל"מתיק (mitigate, modify, mollify, sugar, sugar coat), ל" עים (cause pleasure, make pleasant, please). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | édesedik, édesít (to sugar, to sweeten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | menggulai (sugar), mempermanis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zuccherare (sugar), inzuccherare, addolcire (become milder, mollify, soften). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooraghey (freshen, purify, refection, refresh, refreshing, sweetening), milljaghey (disarm, disarming, sweetening), cur taitnys ayn, cur shugyr er (sugar), cur shugyr ayn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eetensway tornar mais agradável, purificar (chasten, clarify, clean, cleanse, defecate, depurate, distil, distill, elutriate, fine, purge, purify, rarefy, reconcile, rectify, refine, scrub, wash), pôr-se doce, jogar açúcar em, ficar doce, dulcificar (dulcify, mellow), adocicar, adoçar (blunt, mellow), açucarar. (various references) potoli (becalm, compromise, dulcify, dull, hush, lighten, lull, mollify, quench, quiet, reassure, relieve, slack, slake, smooth, smooth down, sober, solace, stay, still, subdue, suppress, temper, tranquillize), parfuma (aromatize, embalm, incense, perfume, scent), dezinfecta (decontaminate, deodorize, disinfect, fumigate), înmiresma (embalm, perfume, scent), îndulci (alleviate, break, delight, dulcify, mellow, modify, palliate, satisfy, smooth, soften, sugar, tame). (various references) подслащивать (dulcify). (various references) zasladiti (dulcify, sugar coat), zašećeriti (sugar coat). (various references) endulzar (sugarcoat). (various references) sockra (sugar), söta. (various references) ทำให้เป็นที่พอใจ (sugar), ทำให้นุ่มนวล, ทำให้รส"ีขึ้น, ทำให้หวาน, หวานขึ้น. (various references) yumuşamak (let loose, let upon, limber up, mellow, melt, moderate, relax, relent, soften, unbend), tatlandırmak (season), tatlılaştırmak (dulcify, saccharify), tatlılaşmak, şeker koymak. (various references) ставати солодким, освіжатися (refresh), освіжати (brush up, freshen, freshen up, refect, refresh), підсолоджувати (dulcify). (various references) pereiddio, melysu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | condulcabit, condulcabitur, dulcem, dulces, indulcabitur, indulcat, indulcata, obdulcati. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sweeten": sweetened, sweetener, sweeteners, sweetening, sweetenings, sweetens. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sweeten": oversweeten, presweeten. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sweeten": oversweetened, oversweetening, oversweetens, presweetened, presweetening, presweetens, unsweetened. (additional references) | |
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"Sweeten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lsleten, seaten, segetum, Seiten, setten, Sewestern, sheeeeeen, Smeeton, sowetan, Speeton, sweede, sweeden, sweetey, Sweetlea, swete, Swietenia, Zeiten, zweite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sweeten" (pronounced swē"tun) |
| 5 | -w ē" t u n | wheaten. |
| 4 | -ē" t u n | beaten, eaten, Seton, unbeaten. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, batten, begotten, biotin, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, bulletin, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, charlatan, chieftain, clandestine, cosmopolitan, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, enlighten, exoskeleton, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gelatin, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, lovastatin, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, metropolitan, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, puritan, rewritten, rotten, Samaritan, satin, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, skeleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, whiten, written. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: etwees, newest. | |
-2 letters: etwee, newts, sente, sweet, teens, tense, tween, weens, weest, weets. | |
-3 letters: ewes, nest, nets, news, newt, seen, sene, sent, sewn, stew, teen, tees, tens, tews, twee, ween, wees, weet, wens, went, west, wets. | |
-4 letters: ens, ewe, nee, net, new, see, sen, set, sew, tee, ten, tew, wee, wen, wet. | |
-5 letters: en, es. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: sweetens, tweenies, weeniest. | |
+2 letters: sweetened, sweetener, sweetness, weensiest, westerner, wetnesses. | |
+3 letters: enwreathes, eyewitness, newsletter, presweeten, sweeteners, sweetening, treenwares, tweediness, westerners, westernise, westernize. | |
+4 letters: betweenness, interweaves, newsletters, oversweeten, presweetens, sweetenings, sweetnesses, swingletree, unsweetened, westernised, westernises, westernized, westernizes, whitenesses. | |
+5 letters: betweentimes, earthenwares, earwitnesses, empowerments, eyewitnesses, interviewees, interviewers, oversweetens, presweetened, reinterviews, screenwriter, sweatinesses, swingletrees, tweedinesses, waterinesses, wintergreens, wontednesses, wretchedness. | |
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