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caramelized

caramelized is the simple past and past participle of caramelize.

Meaning of caramelize

Verb

caramelize (third-person singular simple present caramelizes, present participle caramelizing, simple past and past participle caramelized)

  1. (transitive) To convert (sugar) into 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.
  3. (intransitive) To undergo this kind of conversion or browning.

Words formed from caramelized

Questions about caramelized

What is caramelized the simple past and past participle of?
Caramelized is the simple past and past participle of caramelize.

Words near caramelized in the dictionary

  1. caramelises
  2. caramelising
  3. caramelization
  4. caramelizations
  5. caramelize
  6. caramelized
  7. caramelizer
  8. caramelizers
  9. caramelizes
  10. caramelizing
  11. Caramella

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caramelized (page history and authors); caramelize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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