To Sugar
- (transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.
- (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.
- (US, Canada, regional) 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.
- (entomology) To apply sugar to trees or plants in order to catch moths.
- (programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.
- (transitive) To compliment (a person).
| Synonyms |
(add sugar to): sweeten
(make less unpleasant): sweeten, sugar-coat