EDULCORATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they edulcorate ... he / she / it edulcorates

Past simple: edulcorated

Past participle: edulcorated

-ing form: edulcorating

Meaning:

Make sweeter in taste

Synonyms:

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

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

change taste (alter the flavor of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "edulcorate"):

honey (sweeten with honey)

saccharify; sugar (sweeten with sugar)

candy; glaze; sugarcoat (coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze)

mull (heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink)

Sentence frames:

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