Sweeten vs Edulcorate - What's the difference?
sweeten | edulcorate |
To make sweet to the taste.
To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings.
To make mild or kind; to soften.
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
* (rfdate) :
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
* (rfdate) :
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
To make warm and fertile.
To restore to purity; to free from taint.
To make more attractive;
To become sweet.
(rare) To sweeten (in all senses).
(rare) To free from acidity.
As verbs the difference between sweeten and edulcorate
is that sweeten is to make sweet to the taste while edulcorate is (rare) to sweeten (in all senses).sweeten
English
Verb
(en verb)- to sweeten tea
- to sweeten life
- to sweeten friendship
- to sweeten the temper
- to sweeten the cares of life
- And sweeten every secret tear.
- 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.
- to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
- to sweeten the air
- to dry and sweeten soils
- to sweeten water, butter, or meat
- to by increasing the price offered