Čo znamená sweeten v angličtine a aká je definícia sweeten?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť sweeten výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

sweeten Význam & definícia

0 to make something taste sweet:
- The apple mixture can be sweetened with honey.
1 to make something more attractive:
- The phone company threw in two month's worth of free calls to sweeten the deal.
- I think you should try to sweeten him up before you ask him for the loan.
2 to make something taste sweet:
- Sweeten the nut bread by adding dried fruit.
- infml If they want to settle the strike, the owners still must sweeten their offer (= make it more valuable and attractive).
3 to make something more attractive and acceptable:
- sweeten the deal/bid/offer
- The city had tried to sweeten the deal with a $140 million package.

There is evident extravagance and profligacy about subsidising and sweetening private pension companies.
Children and others consume very large quantities of these artificially sweetened drinks.
Sweetened table waters are consumed very largely, indeed in the main, by children of the poorer classes of the community.
I thought when we made that declaration we were so sweetening the atmosphere that we should have had a settlement.
I have accordingly endeavoured to find some means by which these disputes may be minimised, and the atmosphere generally sweetened.
Take, for example, the case of dulcin, a sweetening agent used for about 50 years.
He told us about the people sweetening their lives with 80,000 cwt.
I worked in a mine that was always being "sweetened" from opencast mining.