The difference between Sugar and Sweeten
When used as verbs, sugar means to add sugar to, whereas sweeten means to make sweet to the taste.
Sugar is also interjection with the meaning: used in place of shit!.
Sugar is also noun with the meaning: sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
check bellow for the other definitions of Sugar and Sweeten
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Sugar as a noun (uncountable):
Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.
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Sugar as a noun (countable):
A specific variety of sugar.
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Sugar as a noun (countable, chemistry):
Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.
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Sugar as a noun (countable):
A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.
Examples:
"He usually has his coffee white with one sugar."
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Sugar as a noun (countable):
Examples:
"I'll be with you in a moment, sugar."
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Sugar as a noun (countable, slang):
A kiss.
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Sugar as a noun (chiefly, southern, _, US, slang, uncountable):
Effeminacy in a male, often implying homosexuality.
Examples:
"I think John has a little bit of sugar in him."
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Sugar as a noun (uncountable, informal):
Diabetes.
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Sugar as a noun (dated):
Anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance, especially in chemistry.
Examples:
"'Sugar of lead (lead acetate) is a poisonous white crystalline substance with a sweet taste."
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Sugar as a noun:
Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
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Sugar as a noun (US, slang):
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Sugar as a verb (transitive):
To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
Examples:
"John heavily sugars his coffee."
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Sugar as a verb (transitive):
To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
Examples:
"She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words."
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Sugar as a verb (US, Canada, regional):
In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.
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Sugar as a verb (entomology):
To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch .
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Sugar as a verb (programming, transitive):
To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make sweet to the taste.
Examples:
"to sweeten tea"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
Examples:
"to sweeten life"
"to sweeten friendship"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make mild or kind; to soften.
Examples:
"to sweeten the temper"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
Examples:
"to sweeten the cares of life"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter.
Examples:
"to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected"
"to sweeten the air"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make warm and fertile.
Examples:
"to dry and sweeten soils"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To restore to purity; to free from taint.
Examples:
"to sweeten water, butter, or meat"
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Sweeten as a verb (transitive):
To make more attractive;
Examples:
"to [[sweeten the deal#English sweeten the deal]] by increasing the price offered"
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Sweeten as a verb (intransitive):
To become sweet.