| Main Entry: | sweeten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add sugar |
Synonyms: |
add sweetening, candy, candy-coat, honey, make sweet, make toothsome, mull, sugar, sugar-coat |
Antonyms: |
salt, sour |
| Main Entry: | sweeten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make happy; appease |
Synonyms: |
alleviate, assuage, conciliate, mollify, pacify, placate, propitiate, soften up, soothe |
Antonyms: |
displease, disrupt, trouble, worry |
| Main Entry: | add |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adjoin, increase; make further comment |
Synonyms: |
affix, annex, ante, append, augment, beef up, boost, build up, charge up, continue, cue in, figure in, flesh out, heat up, hike, hike up, hitch on, hook on, hook up with, include, jack up, jazz up, join together, pad, parlay, piggyback, plug into, pour it on, reply, run up, say further, slap on, snowball, soup up, speed up, spike, step up, supplement, sweeten, tack on, tag |
| Notes: | ad is short for advertisement while add means 'to join or unite' so as to increase in size, quantity, quality, or scope |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deduct, diminish, lessen, reduce, remove, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | appease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy, pacify |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, assuage, be enough, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, content, diminish, do*, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, make matters up, meet halfway, mitigate, mollify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet, serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize |
Antonyms: |
aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease |
| Main Entry: | assuage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | soothe, relieve |
Synonyms: |
allay, alleviate, appease, calm, compose, conciliate, cool*, ease, fill, lessen, lighten, lull, make nice, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, pour oil on, propitiate, quench, quiet, sate, satisfy, soften, still, surfeit, sweeten, take the edge off, take the sting out, temper, tranquilize |
Antonyms: |
exacerbate, upset |
| Main Entry: | augment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make greater; improve |
Synonyms: |
add to, aggrandize, amplify, beef up, boost, build, build up, compound, develop, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mount, multiply, pad, piggyback, progress, raise, reinforce, strengthen, sweeten, swell, tag on |
Antonyms: |
decrease, degrade |
| Main Entry: | deodorize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | freshen |
Synonyms: |
aerate, air, depollute, disinfect, fumigate, neutralize, purify, sanitize, sterilize, sweeten, ventilate |
| Main Entry: | enrich |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
Synonyms: |
adorn, aggrandize, ameliorate, augment, beef up, better, build, build up, cultivate, decorate, develop, endow, enhance, figure in, flesh out, grace, hike up, hop up, jack up, jazz up, make rich, ornament, pad, parlay, pour it on, pyramid, refine, run up, soup up, spike*, step up, supplement, sweeten, up*, upgrade |
Antonyms: |
decrease, deplete, impoverish, reduce, take |
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go into detail |
Synonyms: |
amplify, beef up, build up, develop, dilate, discourse, drag out, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, expatiate, expound, extend, flesh out, spell out, sweeten |
Antonyms: |
abbreviate, abridge, shorten |
| Main Entry: | freshen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make like new; revitalize |
Synonyms: |
activate, air, cleanse, enliven, invigorate, purify, refresh, restore, revive, rouse, spruce up, sweeten, titivate, ventilate |
Antonyms: |
overuse |