Meaning

3 senses
  1. (transitive)To convert (sugar) into caramel.

    карамелізуватиkaramelizuvaty

    convert to caramel

  2. (transitive)To brown (sugar, or a foodstuff containing sugar) by means of heat.

    Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color.

    karamellisieren

    карамелізуватиkaramelizuvaty

  3. (intransitive)To undergo this kind of conversion or browning.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Let the sugar caramelize.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
convert sugar into caramel:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
brown sugar:

Forms

caramelizes, caramelizing, caramelized, caramelized
Base formcaramelize · to caramelize
3rd person singularcaramelizes
Present participlecaramelizing
Past simplecaramelized
Past participlecaramelized

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycaramelize
he, she, itcaramelizes

Past simpleLesson

all personscaramelized

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave caramelized
he, she, ithas caramelized

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill caramelize

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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