oversugar

Verb

oversugar (third-person singular simple present oversugars, present participle oversugaring, simple past and past participle oversugared)

1. To sugar excessively.
   • We oversugar, oversalt. We stimulate our tongues with spices and artificial sweeteners, our noses with artificial flavors, our eyes with artificial brilliant dyes. These are not things that nature has made, necessarily, although she provided the raw materials. They are superstimulants that humans...1989, Jillyn Smith, “Feed Me, Feed Me: Superstimulation”, in Senses and Sensibilities, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Science Editions, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Seeking Sensory Experience), page 211
   • Nabby said three other things to Alice in the course of that day: she’d oversugared the pudding; she’d put out the wrong plates; she’d raised too much dust with her broom.2008, Sally Gunning, chapter 4, in Bound, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 22