Usually means: Make more pleasant or agreeable.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sweeten:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweeten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweeten: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweeten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweeten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweeten: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweeten: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweeten, sweeten: Wordnik
  8. sweeten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sweeten, sweeten: Wiktionary
  10. sweeten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweeten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweeten: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweeten: Dictionary.com
  14. sweeten: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sweeten: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sweeten: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sweeten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sweeten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sweeten: Rhymezone
  20. sweeten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sweeten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sweeten: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sweeten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sweeten: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. sweeten: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweeten: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweeten: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweeten: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sweeten: The Folk File

(Note: See sweetened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make sweet to the taste.
verb:  (transitive) To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
verb:  (transitive) To make mild or kind; to soften.
verb:  (transitive) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
verb:  (transitive) To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
verb:  (transitive) To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
verb:  (transitive) To make warm and fertile.
verb:  (agriculture, transitive) To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
verb:  (transitive) To restore to purity; to free from taint.
verb:  (transitive) To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
verb:  (intransitive) To become sweet.
verb:  (music, transitive) To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
noun:  A surname.

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