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Sugar; mollify (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sweeten

<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">I believe this is a double definition.<br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">sugar</span>' is the first definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(I know that sugar is a more specific form of the action sweeten)</span><br/ ><br/ >'<span class="explanation-format__original">mollify</span>' is the second definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(thesaurus)</span><br/ ><br/ ></span>

(Other definitions for sweeten that I've seen before include "Make saccharine or honeyed" , "placate" , "Make more agreeable or acceptable" , "Modify" , "Add, eg, sugar to" .)

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