DULCIFY (dulcified)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: dulcified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does dulcify mean? 

• DULCIFY (verb)
  The verb DULCIFY has 1 sense:

1. make sweeter in taste

  Familiarity information: DULCIFY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DULCIFY (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

dulcify; dulcorate; edulcorate; sweeten

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:

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