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Webster 1913 Edition


Sweetening

Sweet′en-ing

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Noun.
1.
The act of making sweet.
2.
That which sweetens.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sweetening

SWEE'TENING

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ppr.
Making sweet or grateful.

Definition 2024


sweetening

sweetening

English

Noun

sweetening (countable and uncountable, plural sweetenings)

  1. See long sweetening and short sweetening.
  2. A sweetener.
    Honey is the oldest of sweetenings.

Verb

sweetening

  1. present participle of sweeten