"caramelize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkaɹ(ə)məlʌɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-caramelize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: caramelizes [present, singular, third-person], caramelizing [participle, present], caramelized [participle, past], caramelized [past]
Etymology: From caramel + -ize. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|caramel|ize}} caramel + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} caramelize (third-person singular simple present caramelizes, present participle caramelizing, simple past and past participle caramelized)
  1. (cooking, transitive) To convert (sugar) into caramel. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Cooking Translations (convert sugar into caramel): karamellisoida (Finnish), karmelizować [imperfective] (Polish), skarmelizować [perfective] (Polish), карамелізувати (karamelizuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-caramelize-en-verb-A1-FMuYq Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'convert sugar into caramel': 92 5 2
  2. (cooking, transitive) To brown (sugar, or a foodstuff containing sugar) by means of heat. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Cooking, Fire Translations (brown sugar): acaramel·lar (Catalan), caramel·litzar (Catalan), karameligi (Esperanto), karamellisoida (Finnish), caraméliser (French), karamellisieren (German), caramellare (Italian), caramellizzare (Italian), karamellisere (Norwegian Bokmål), karmelizować [imperfective] (Polish), skarmelizować [perfective] (Polish), caramelizar (Portuguese), acaramelar (Spanish), caramelizar (Spanish), karamellisera (Swedish), karamelize etmek (Turkish), карамелізувати (karamelizuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-caramelize-en-verb-d2Jr~MGN Disambiguation of Fire: 36 55 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 67 13 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 19 58 22 Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle Disambiguation of 'brown sugar': 40 49 11
  3. (cooking, intransitive) To undergo this kind of conversion or browning. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Cooking
    Sense id: en-caramelize-en-verb-hOUDxsuC Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: caramelise, carmelize [US] Derived forms: caramelization

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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