sweetening
sweetening is a polysyllabic word with 3 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, sweetening is hyphenated as:
Definitions ofsweetening
- 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.
- The process of making something sweeter.
- A sweetener.
Example: "Honey is the oldest of sweetenings."
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