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Sugars

Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

📖 Definitions of "Sugars"

noun
  1. 1

    Sucrose in the form of small crystals, obtained from sugar cane or sugar beet and used to sweeten food and drink.

  2. 2

    A specific variety of sugar.

  3. 3

    Any of various small carbohydrates that are used by organisms to store energy.

  4. 4

    A small serving of this substance (typically about one teaspoon), used to sweeten a drink.

    "He usually has his coffee white with one sugar."

verb
  1. 1

    To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

    "John heavily sugars his coffee."

  2. 2

    To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

    "She has a gift for sugaring what would otherwise be harsh words."

  3. 3

    In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off.

  4. 4

    To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.

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