0 present participle of sweeten
2 to make something more attractive:
In the era of industrialisation it supplied an opiate for the masses, while sweetening the excitants that helped to keep workers going.
There is evident extravagance and profligacy about subsidising and sweetening private pension companies.
I thought when we made that declaration we were so sweetening the atmosphere that we should have had a settlement.
Take, for example, the case of dulcin, a sweetening agent used for about 50 years.
This would go a very great way indeed towards sweetening the political climate.
He told us about the people sweetening their lives with 80,000 cwt.
There was also the rather narrower, less academic concept of sweetening the inevitable increase in war-time taxation.
I am aware that certain substances derived from coal-tar products may be used for sweetening purposes.
