SPICE UP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Make more interesting or flavorful

Example:

Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer

Synonyms:

spice; spice up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

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

salt (add zest or liveliness to)

Sentence frames:

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Meaning:

Add herbs or spices to

Synonyms:

spice; spice up; zest

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):

flavor; flavour; season (lend flavor to)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

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

ginger (add ginger to in order to add flavor)

pepper (add pepper to)

Sentence frame:

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