desugar

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
7

Definition of desugar

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To remove sugar from.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To remove sugar from.
  2. (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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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.

Anagrams of desugar

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6-letter words

9 words

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4-letter words

62 words

3-letter words

38 words

2-letter words

12 words

Hooks

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