SWEETENING

To make sweet to the taste.

Example: "To sweeten tea"

To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.

Example: "To sweeten friendship"

To make mild or kind; to soften.

Example: "To sweeten the temper"

To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.

Example: "To sweeten the cares of life"

To soften to the eye; to make delicate.

To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.

Example: "To sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected"

To make warm and fertile.

Example: "To dry and sweeten soils"

To restore to purity; to free from taint.

Example: "To sweeten water, butter, or meat"

To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.

To become sweet.