To make something sweet or sweeter; to sweeten thoroughly.
From prefix 'be-' + 'sweeten' (from Old English 'swete,' sweet). The prefix adds intensity to the idea of sweetening something.
Medieval and Renaissance English writers loved creating verbs this way — if you could 'sweeten' something a little, you could 'besweeten' it completely, making the meaning more intense and vivid.
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