Meaning

7 senses

  1. (transitive)To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

    John heavily sugars his coffee.

    zuckern

    са́харитьsáxaritʹ, поса́харитьposáxaritʹ

    sweeten with sugar

  2. (transitive)To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

    She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words.

    versüßen

    подсласти́тьpodslastítʹ

  3. (Canada, US, regional)In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.

  4. To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

  5. (transitive)To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

  6. (transitive)To compliment (a person).

  7. To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.

Examples

932 sentences

  1. Put in a little more sugar.

    Поклади трохи більше цукру. — aandrusiak

    ruДобавь ещё немного сахара. — marafon

    deGib etwas mehr Zucker hinein. — Yorwba

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  2. I need a bit of sugar.

    Мені потрібно трохи цукру. — deniko

    ruМне нужно немного сахара. — odexed

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  3. Coffee, please, with cream and sugar.

    Каву із вершками та цукром, будь ласка. — deniko

    ruПожалуйста, кофе со сливками и сахаром. — soweli_Elepanto

    deEinen Kaffee mit Zucker und Kaffeesahne, bitte. — lilygilder

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  4. How much sugar do you use?

    Скільки ти додаєш цукру? — deniko

    deWie viel Zucker verwendest du? — hisasteko

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  5. Add a bit of sugar, please.

    Додайте трохи цукру, будь ласка. — deniko

    ruДобавь немного сахара, пожалуйста. — marafon

    deGib bitte ein bisschen Zucker dazu. — MUIRIEL

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to add sugar to, to sweeten:
to make something seem less unpleasant:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to add sugar to, to sweeten:
to make something seem less unpleasant:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Ita

Inherited from Middle English sugre, borrowed from Old French çucre, borrowed from Old Italian zucchero, borrowed from Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). Akin to Ancient Greek κρόκη (krókē, “pebble”), whence the words crocodile and krokodil are derived. Doublet of jaggery and sucro-.

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Forms

sugars, sugaring, sugared, sugared
Base formsugar · to sugar
3rd person singularsugars
Present participlesugaring
Past simplesugared
Past participlesugared

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysugar
he, she, itsugars

Past simpleLesson

all personssugared

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sugar

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

3 synonyms
add sugar to:sweeten
make less unpleasant:sugar-coat
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Derivedoversugarsugaredsugarersugaringsugar off

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • put sugar in
  • sugar in my
  • how much sugar
  • much sugar
  • coffee without sugar
  • put sugar
  • without sugar
  • too much sugar
  • sugar in his
  • some sugar
  • lot of sugar
  • of sugar in

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
suffixB1suffocatesuffragesugarcoatsugarysuggestA2
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