"sweeten up" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sweetens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetened up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sweeten up (third-person singular simple present sweetens up, present participle sweetening up, simple past and past participle sweetened up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I sweetened up the barbeque sauce by adding some sugar."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make sweet to the taste."
      ],
      "id": "en-sweeten_up-en-verb-D-WKVxWi",
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet",
          "sweet"
        ],
        [
          "taste",
          "taste"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǐ tiánmì",
          "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
          "word": "使甜蜜"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
          "word": "makeuttaa"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sweeten up.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sweeten up"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sweetens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sweetened up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "sweeten up (third-person singular simple present sweetens up, present participle sweetening up, simple past and past participle sweetened up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I sweetened up the barbeque sauce by adding some sugar."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make sweet to the taste."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet",
          "sweet"
        ],
        [
          "taste",
          "taste"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-sweeten up.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/be/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/En-au-sweeten_up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǐ tiánmì",
      "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
      "word": "使甜蜜"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
      "word": "makeuttaa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sweeten up"
}