sweeten vs saccharify

sweeten and saccharify both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sweeten	No	No	Yes	No
saccharify	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, saccharify is a hyponym of sweeten; that is, saccharify is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sweeten:

Other hyponyms of sweeten include honey, sugar, candy, glaze, sugarcoat, mull.

sweeten (verb)	saccharify (verb)
make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable	convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate
make sweeter in taste	sweeten with sugar