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Dulcify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To make agreeable or gentle; mollify.

v. To sweeten.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To sweeten

v. To remove salty or acidic flavors with a sweetener

v. To mollify or make peaceful

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

v. Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To sweeten; in old chemistry, to free from corrosive and sharp-tasting admixtures; render more agreeable to the taste.

To render more agreeable in any sense.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make sweeter in taste

Word Usage

"And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes."

Verb Form

dulcified dulcifies dulcifying

Cross Reference

dulcified spirit

Variant

dulcified

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

sweeten please