"sweeten up" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-sweeten up.ogg Forms: sweetens up [present, singular, third-person], sweetening up [participle, present], sweetened up [participle, past], sweetened up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sweeten up (third-person singular simple present sweetens up, present participle sweetening up, simple past and past participle sweetened up)
  1. (idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste. Tags: idiomatic Translations (make sweet to the taste): 使甜蜜 (shǐ tiánmì) (Chinese Mandarin), makeuttaa (Finnish)

Inflected forms

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