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choice between chocolate gateau and gooseberry pie.
sweeten v. 1 sugar, sugar-coat: Can you think of nothing that would
sweeten the bad news? 2 dress up, make more attractive or
agreeable, sugar-coat, embellish, embroider; make less painful,
mitigate, alleviate, assuage, lighten, soften, palliate,
mollify, ease, allay, moderate, temper: Perhaps the
shareholders would be more amenable to the take-over were the
buyers to sweeten the offer.
sweetheart
n. girlfriend, boyfriend, friend, admirer, beau, darling, dear,
love, beloved, lover, paramour, inamorato, inamorata, lady-love,
betrothed, intended, fianc‚(e), Archaic swain Colloq heartthrob,
flame, sweetie, steady: She married her childhood sweetheart
and lived happily ever after.
swell v. 1 Often, swell out or up. grow, increase, enlarge, expand,
blow or puff up or out, distend, inflate, dilate, wax; mushroom,
belly, balloon, bloat, bulge, billow, fatten, rise, tumefy:
After cooking, the mixture swells to twice its original volume.
2 grow, increase, mushroom, snowball, accumulate, mount:
Forgotten for years, her savings had swelled to become a small
fortune. 3 increase, raise, augment, enlarge, boost, step up:
Something must be done to swell the number of recruits.
--n. 4 enlargement, broadening, increase, extension, spread,
swelling, inflation, expansion, rise, surge: Have you noted the
swell in popularity of health foods? 5 wave, surge, billow: As
we rose to the top of each swell, we could see the shore. 6
fop, dandy, gay blade, fashion plate, Beau Brummell, Archaic
coxcomb, Historical macaroni, Colloq clothes-horse, US fancy
Dan, Slang nob, Archaic lounge lizard, Brit toff: He frequented
the clubs populated by the other London swells.
--adj. 7 smart, chic, stylish, fashionable, modish, grand,
luxurious, de luxe, elegant, first-rate, first-class, top-grade,
Colloq posh, swank, swanky, ritzy: Charlie always took Diane to
the swellest places. 8 marvellous, thrilling, splendid,
spectacular, first-rate, fine, Colloq great, super, terrific: I
really had a swell time at your party.
swelling n. enlargement, distension, tumescence, protuberance, bump,