"sweeten up" meaning in English

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          "text": "I sweetened up the barbeque sauce by adding some sugar.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make sweet to the taste."
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          "taste",
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        "(idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste."
      ],
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǐ tiánmì",
          "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
          "word": "使甜蜜"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
          "word": "makeuttaa"
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  "word": "sweeten up"
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    {
      "form": "sweetened up",
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      "form": "sweetened up",
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        "To make sweet to the taste."
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        "(idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste."
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǐ tiánmì",
      "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
      "word": "使甜蜜"
    },
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      "sense": "make sweet to the taste",
      "word": "makeuttaa"
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