Sweeten
verb — past tense: sweetened ; past participle: sweetened ; present participle: sweetening ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to make sweet, to make pleasant or agreeable, to make more endurable or pleasant) ដាក់ស្ករ
- 2.
- (INTRANSITIVE) (To become sweet; to become more) ទៅជាផ្អែម, ធ្វើអោយស្រាក, អោយស្ងប់, ធ្វើអោយទ្រាំទ្របាន, ធូរស្រាល, ធ្វើអោយសុខស្រួល
Example: Please sweeten my coffee, A friends kindness sweetened his lot. - 3.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ធ្វើអោយកាន់តែយល់ព្រម
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: sweetened ; past participle: sweetened ; present participle: sweetening ;
- 1.
- To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
- 2.
- To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
- 3.
- To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
- 4.
- To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
- 5.
- To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
- 6.
- To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; to sweeten the air.
- 7.
- To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
- 8.
- To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
- 9.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become sweet.