ACIDULATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they acidulate ... he / she / it acidulates

Past simple: acidulated

Past participle: acidulated

-ing form: acidulating

Meaning:

Make sour or more sour

Synonyms:

acetify; acidify; acidulate; sour

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "acidulate" is one way to...):

change taste (alter the flavor of)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)