figurative. To make sweet, agreeable, or palatable. to sugar the pill = to gild the pill at pill, n.3 3b.

figurative. To influence the character or quality of (an experience, situation, action, work, etc.)… transitive. To introduce a pleasant or agreeable…

To render pleasing or acceptable; to grace.

To make pleasant or agreeable; sometimes, to make more pleasant, add to the sweetness of.

transitive. Chiefly with over; also (now rare) with up. To make (something) superficially more agreeable or acceptable; to give (something) a…

transitive. To perfume with rose water; (figurative) to make pleasant or mild (cf. rose water, n. 2). Chiefly in past participle.

transitive. = candy, v. (in various senses).

transitive. To make pleasant or agreeable; to impart cheerfulness to.

to coat with sugar; figurative, to make palatable.

To smear or spread with treacle; to dose with (brimstone and) treacle; to sweeten or render palatable with treacle (also figurative).