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DULCIFY
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Irregular inflected form: dulcified
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dulcify ... he / she / it dulcifies
Past simple: dulcified
Past participle: dulcified
-ing form: dulcifying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make sweeter in taste
Synonyms:
dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "dulcify" is one way to...):
change taste (alter the flavor of)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dulcify"):
honey (sweeten with honey)
saccharify; sugar (sweeten with sugar)
candy; glaze; sugarcoat (coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze)
mull (heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
