SUGAR / SWEETEN THE PILL

Meaning of SUGAR / SWEETEN THE PILL in English

to do sth that makes an unpleasant situation seem less unpleasant

SYN sugar-coat

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

SUGAR — I Any of numerous sweet, colourless organic compounds that dissolve readily in water and occur in the sap of seed …
Английский словарь Британика
SUGAR — I. ˈshu̇gə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English sucre, sugre, suger, from Middle French çucre, sucre, from Medieval Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PILL — I. ˈpil noun ( -s ) Etymology: earlier pille, from (assumed) Middle English, from Old English pyll, alteration of pull …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ˈswēt ə n verb ( sweetened ; sweetened ; sweetening -t( ə )niŋ ; sweetens ) Etymology: sweet (I) + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SWEETEN — (a.) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected; …
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — (a.) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Английский словарь Webster
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To restore to purity; to free from taint; as, to sweeten water, butter, or meat.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make warm and fertile; -- opposed to sour; as, to dry and sweeten soils.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make pure and salubrious by destroying noxious matter; as, to sweeten rooms or apartments that have …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make pleasing or grateful to the mind or feelings; as, to sweeten life; to sweeten friendship.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SWEETEN — ( a. ) To make less painful or laborious; to relieve; as, to sweeten the cares of life.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SUGAR — — sugarless , adj. — sugarlike , adj. /shoog"euhr/ , n. 1. a sweet, crystalline substance, C 12 H 22 …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PILL — pill 1 /pil/ , n. 1. a small globular or rounded mass of medicinal substance, usually covered with a hard …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SUGAR — I. ˈshu̇-gər noun Etymology: Middle English sugre, sucre, from Anglo-French sucre, from Medieval Latin zuccarum, from Old Italian zucchero, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PILL — I. ˈpil verb Etymology: Middle English pilen, pillen, partly from Old English pilian to peel, partly from Anglo-French piler to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWEETEN — verb ( sweet·ened ; sweet·en·ing ˈswēt-niŋ, ˈswē-t ə n-iŋ) Date: circa 1552 transitive verb 1. : to make sweet 2. …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SWEETEN — vi to become sweet. 2. sweeten ·adj to soften to the eye; to make delicate. 3. sweeten ·adj to make …
Webster English vocab
SUGAR — vt to impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. 2. sugar ·noun compliment or flattery used …
Webster English vocab
PILL — noun the peel or skin. 2. pill ·vt to deprive of hair; to make bald. 3. pill ·vi to be …
Webster English vocab
SUGAR — [sug.ar] n [ME sugre, sucre, fr. MF sucre, fr. ML zuccarum, fr. OIt zucchero, fr. Ar sukkar, fr. Per shakar, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PILL — [pill] vb [ME pilen, pillen, partly fr. OE pilian to peel, partly fr. MF piller to plunder] vi (12c) dial …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SUGAR — any of numerous sweet, colourless, water-soluble compounds present in the sap of seed plants and the milk of mammals and …
Britannica English vocabulary
SWEETEN — sweeten BrE AmE ˈswiːt ə n ▷ sweeten|ed d ▷ sweeten|er/s ‿ə/z AmE \ ə r/z ▷ sweeten|ing ‿ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SUGAR — sugar BrE AmE ˈʃʊɡ ə AmE \ - ə r (!) ▷ sugar|ed d ▷ sugaring ˈʃʊɡ ə r‿ɪŋ ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SWEETEN — / ˈswiːtn; NAmE / verb [ vn ] 1. to make food or drinks taste sweeter by adding sugar, etc. …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SUGAR
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PILL — / pɪl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ C ] a small flat round piece of medicine …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWEETEN — sweet ‧ en /ˈswiːtn/ BrE AmE verb [ Word Family: noun : ↑ sweet , ↑ sweetener , ↑ sweetness …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SUGAR — I. sug ‧ ar 1 S2 W3 /ˈʃʊɡə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PILL — I. pill 1 S3 /pɪl/ BrE AmE noun [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: pilula , from pila …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SUGAR — n. & v. --n. 1 a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, esp. the sugar cane and sugar beet, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PILL — n. 1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SWEETEN — v.tr. & intr. 1 make or become sweet or sweeter. 2 make agreeable or less painful. sweeten the pill see …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SUGAR — n. & v. n. 1 a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, esp. the sugar cane and sugar beet, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PILL — n. 1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SWEETEN — v.tr. & intr. 1. make or become sweet or sweeter. 2 make agreeable or less painful. Phrases and idioms: sweeten …
Oxford English vocab
SUGAR — n. & v. --n. 1. a sweet crystalline substance obtained from various plants, esp. the sugar cane and sugar beet, …
Oxford English vocab
PILL — n.1 a solid medicine formed into a ball or a flat disc for swallowing whole. b (usu. prec. by the) …
Oxford English vocab
SWEETEN — ( sweetens, sweetening, sweetened) 1. If you sweeten food or drink, you add sugar, honey, or another sweet substance to …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SUGAR — ( sugars, sugaring, sugared) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Sugar is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PILL — ( pills) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Pills are small solid …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SWEETEN — verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sweetened condensed milk PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES sugar/sweeten the pill ▪ They tried to sweeten …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SUGAR — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a high sugar/salt/fibre etc content ▪ Red meat tends to have a high fat …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PILL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES morning-after pill pep pill poison pill sleeping pill COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE bitter …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PILL — [noun] [C] - a small solid piece of medicine which a person swallows in one piece; a tableta sleeping pillMy …
Cambridge English vocab
SUGAR — n. fruit sugar corn sugar grape sugar table sugar Leonard Sugar Ray Robinson Sugar Ray Sugar Act sugar beet
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PILL — PILL, or PEELE GARLICK. Said originally to mean one whose skin or hair had fallen off from some disease, chiefly …
Slang English vocab
SUGAR — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ raw , unrefined ▪ processed , refined ▪ brown , white ▪ Add one cup of soft …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PILL — noun 1 medicine ADJECTIVE ▪ diet , sleeping , vitamin ▪ prescription ( esp. AmE ) … OF PILLS ▪ bottle …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
SWEETEN — v. 25B6; verb sweeten the milk with honey : MAKE SWEET, add sugar to, sugar, sugar-coat. he chewed gum to …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SWEETEN — v. 1 sugar, sugar-coat Can you think of nothing that would sweeten the bad news? 2 dress up, make more …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PILL — n. 1 tablet, capsule, bolus, pellet, pilule; medicine, medication, medicament, drug, pharmaceutical, remedy, cure; cough drop, pastille, lozenge, troche Doctor, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SUGAR — 1. сущ. 1) сахар to produce sugar ≈ производить сахар to refine sugar ≈ очищать, рафинировать сахар a lump of …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PILL — I 1. сущ. 1) а) пилюля, таблетка б) (the Pill) противозачаточные таблетки в) перен. нечто горькое, неприятное (что необходимо сделать, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SWEETEN — sweeten.ogg ʹswi:tn v 1. 1> подслащивать 2> сделаться сладким 2. 1> наполнять благоуханием, ароматм 2> наполняться благоуханием, ароматом 3. 1> …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SUGAR — sugar.ogg 1. ʹʃʋgə n 1. 1> сахар refined /white/ sugar - рафинад granulated sugar - сахарный песок beet cane sugar …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PILL — pill.ogg _I 1. pıl n 1. 1> пилюля; таблетка to take a pill - а) принять пилюлю /таблетку/; б) разг. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary

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