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SUGARCOAT
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they sugarcoat ... he / she / it sugarcoats
Past simple: sugarcoated
Past participle: sugarcoated
-ing form: sugarcoating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to appear more pleasant or appealing
Example:
The mayor did not sugarcoat the reality of the tax cuts
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "sugarcoat" is one way to...):
spin (twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "sugarcoat" is one way to...):
dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten (make sweeter in taste)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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