English Dictionary

sugar

/ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)/

verb

(transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar. / (transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

I always sugar my coffee.

意味（1）

(transitive) To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

See, I've put sugar-plums on his coat for fancy buttons, sugared his shirt-frill, and put on a red almond to his hat-front.

意味（2）

(transitive) To make (something unpleasant) seem less so.

He also published the Weekly Recorder, an indefinite title, which was his way of sugaring what soon became in the region where it was published, Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a very bitter pill.

意味（3）

(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.

To sugar off, I prefer using a kettle that will hold about half a. barrel; and boil over a brisk, steady fire, till on dropping some of the syrup into cold water it will break like glass, then dip it into wooden trays to cool, and when it is grained stir it briskly.

意味（4）

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

Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom.

意味（5）

(programming, transitive) To rewrite (source code) using syntactic sugar.

You can sugar the syntax of constants thus: […]

意味（6）

(transitive) To compliment (a person).

意味（7）

To remove hair using a paste of sugar, water, and lemon juice.