A sugar substitute, a food additive that attempts to duplicate the effect of sugar in taste but usually with fewer calories.

(standards of identity) Sweetened with saccharin, sodium saccharin, or a combination of both.

(idiomatic) To make sweet to the taste.

plural of sweetening

(archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sweeten

(archaic) second-person singular simple present form of sweeten

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of back-sweeten

simple past tense and past participle of back-sweeten

present participle of back-sweeten

(transitive, brewing) To sweeten (an alcoholic drink) after fermentation by adding further sugar.