Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to sweeten
Participle: sweetened
Gerund: sweetening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | sweeten |
| you | sweeten |
| he;she;it | sweetens |
| we | sweeten |
| you | sweeten |
| they | sweeten |
Perfect
| I | have sweetened |
| you | have sweetened |
| he;she;it | has sweetened |
| we | have sweetened |
| you | have sweetened |
| they | have sweetened |
Past
| I | sweetened |
| you | sweetened |
| he;she;it | sweetened |
| we | sweetened |
| you | sweetened |
| they | sweetened |
Pluperfect
| I | had sweetened |
| you | had sweetened |
| he;she;it | had sweetened |
| we | had sweetened |
| you | had sweetened |
| they | had sweetened |
Future
| I | will sweeten |
| you | will sweeten |
| he;she;it | will sweeten |
| we | will sweeten |
| you | will sweeten |
| they | will sweeten |
Future Perfect
| I | will have sweetened |
| you | will have sweetened |
| he;she;it | will have sweetened |
| we | will have sweetened |
| you | will have sweetened |
| they | will have sweetened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | sweeten |
| you | sweeten |
| he;she;it | sweeten |
| we | sweeten |
| you | sweeten |
| they | sweeten |
Perfect
| I | have sweetened |
| you | have sweetened |
| he;she;it | have sweetened |
| we | have sweetened |
| you | have sweetened |
| they | have sweetened |
Imperfect
| I | sweetened |
| you | sweetened |
| he;she;it | sweetened |
| we | sweetened |
| you | sweetened |
| they | sweetened |
Pluperfect
| I | had sweetened |
| you | had sweetened |
| he;she;it | had sweetened |
| we | had sweetened |
| you | had sweetened |
| they | had sweetened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would sweeten |
| you | would sweeten |
| he;she;it | would sweeten |
| we | would sweeten |
| you | would sweeten |
| they | would sweeten |
Perfect
| I | would have sweetened |
| you | would have sweetened |
| he;she;it | would have sweetened |
| we | would have sweetened |
| you | would have sweetened |
| they | would have sweetened |
Imperative
| you | sweeten |
| we | Let's sweeten |
| you | sweeten |
Verbs conjugated like 'sweeten'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'sweeten'
ensweeten,
meeten,
skeeter,
sleeken,
steepen,
swarten,
sweet,
swelter,
unsweeten,
wetten,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).
Sample Sentences
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to sweeten tea
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to sweeten life
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to sweeten friendship
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to sweeten the temper
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to sweeten the cares of life
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Our God to bless out home delights, / And sweeten every secret tear:— [...] [1827, [John Keble], “Last Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 99:]
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Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other. [1695, John Dryden, De Arte Graphica:]
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to sweeten the air
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to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
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to dry and sweeten soils
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[T]hey had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn[.] [1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 128:]
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to sweeten water, butter, or meat
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to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
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In most popular music the bowed strings usually play long, sustained, sweeping parts, and are sometimes added to a vocal track later in a process known as sweetening. [2011, Russell Dean Vines, Composing Digital Music For Dummies, page 326:]
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Rather than employ strings to “sweeten” the songs, Motown's arrangements used strings as a timbral layer, in conjunction with syncopated horn lines, for a fuller sound; […] [2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music: An Introduction, page 259:]