Sweeten vs Soften - What's the difference?
sweeten | soften |
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.
To make something soft or softer.
To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up ).
To make less harsh
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To become soft or softer
In lang=en terms the difference between sweeten and soften
is that sweeten is to become sweet while soften is to become soft or softer.As verbs the difference between sweeten and soften
is that sweeten is to make sweet to the taste while soften is to make something soft or softer.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
Antonyms
* (to make warm and fertile)soften
English
Verb
(en verb)- Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
- Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
- Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
- The butter softened as it warmed up.
