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desugaring

desugaring is the present participle and gerund of desugar.

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?

Questions about desugaring

What is desugaring the present participle and gerund of?
Desugaring is the present participle and gerund of desugar.

Words near desugaring in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: desugaring (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.

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