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desugar

desugar verb: to remove sugar from.

Verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

  1. (transitive, chiefly food processing) To remove sugar from.
  2. (informal, transitive) To remove syntactic sugar from.
    • The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array.2025 December 20, Luca Lombardo, Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?

Forms of desugar

third-person singular presentdesugars
present participledesugaring
past participledesugared
pastdesugared

Origin of desugar

From de- + sugar.

Questions about desugar

What does desugar mean?
Desugar means to remove sugar from.
What part of speech is desugar?
Desugar is a verb.
What is the past tense of desugar?
The past tense of desugar is desugared.

Words near desugar in the dictionary

  1. desudations
  2. desuete
  3. desuetude
  4. desuetudes
  5. desuetudinous
  6. desugar
  7. desugared
  8. desugaring
  9. desugars
  10. desuggestion
  11. desuggestive

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