sugar

sugar is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
2. noun. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
3. noun. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
4. intransitive verb. In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
5. transitive verb. To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
6. transitive verb. To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
7. noun. a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
8. noun. informal terms for money

   Synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre

9. noun. an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain

   Synonyms: carbohydrate, saccharide

10. verb. sweeten with sugar

    "sugar your tea"

    Synonyms: saccharify

Synonyms

boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, wampum, carbohydrate, saccharide, saccharify

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sugar:

argus, gaurs, guars

Common word forms

sugars, sugared, sugarer, sugaring, sugarless

Words from these letters

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