Word.ws English Dictionary

desugared

desugared is the simple past and past participle of desugar.

Adjective

desugared (comparative more desugared, superlative most desugared)

  1. Having some or all the sugar removed
  2. Having had the syntactic sugar removed

Meaning of desugar

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 desugared

comparativemore desugared
superlativemost desugared

Questions about desugared

What does desugared mean?
Desugared means having some or all the sugar removed.
What is desugared the simple past and past participle of?
Desugared is the simple past and past participle of desugar.
What part of speech is desugared?
Desugared is an adjective.

Words near desugared in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: desugared (page history and authors); desugar (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “desugared.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/desugared. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.