"desugar" meaning in English

See desugar in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: desugars [present, singular, third-person], desugaring [participle, present], desugared [participle, past], desugared [past]
Etymology: de- + sugar Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|de|sugar}} de- + sugar Head templates: {{en-verb}} desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)
  1. (transitive, chiefly food processing) To remove sugar from. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-desugar-en-verb-aTludda6
  2. (transitive, programming, informal) To remove syntactic sugar from. Tags: informal, transitive Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-desugar-en-verb-YqFs9kU2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with de- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with de-: 34 66 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

Inflected forms

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