desugar en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā) Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor. Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor. Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor. Old Italian zuccherobor. Old French çucrebor. Middle English sugre English sugar English desugar From de- + sugar.
Meanings
- (qualifier:chiefly food processing, transitive) To remove sugar from.
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(informal, transitive) To remove syntactic sugar from.
The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array.
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Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| desugars | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| desugared | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| desugared | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| desugaring | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |