Tarten

Quick meaning: Tarten is a verb meaning (transitive) To make tart or bitter.

Meaning

(transitive) To make tart or bitter.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To become tart or bitter

Example Sentences

These faults in a scholar tend to tarten the writing, to enliven the reader.

[…] her sweetness tartened as one side of her clutched loyalty, the other love.

He knew precisely when to spice the orchestration with percussive pepper, when to add a pinch more of sugar, when to tarten the mixture with a squeeze or two of lime.

I loved their shouts of welcome as I trudged across the fields carrying the heavy jug. Mama mixed the old time drink from cold well water, a pinch of ginger, molasses and some vinegar to tarten it.

Word Forms

• tartens
• tartening
• tartened

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bitter, debitterize, embitter, sour, detartrate, acerbate.

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