Synonyms for sugar
ˈʃʊg ərsug·ar

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1. sugarverb

   To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar.

   John heavily sugars his coffee.

   Synonyms:
   sweeten

2. sugarverb

   Synonyms:
   sweeten, sugar-coat

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1. sugar, refined sugarnoun

   a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative

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

2. carbohydrate, saccharide, sugarnoun

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

3. boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampumverb

   informal terms for money

   Synonyms:
   lolly, net, popsicle, clams, cacography, scrawl, abrasion, cabbage, borecole, kail, net profit, lucre, boodle, scratching, staff of life, starting line, plunder, gelt, colewort, pillage, booty, start, cole, net income, bread, earnings, slit, lettuce, kale, prick, stops, loot, dent, cultivated cabbage, carbohydrate, prize, chicken feed, scratch, scraping, swag, profits, dirty money, pelf, profit, refined sugar, incision, scratch line, wampumpeag, dough, dinero, saccharide, breadstuff, scrape, wampum, excoriation, scar, peag, chou, scribble, ice lolly, mark, simoleons, lollipop, shekels, moolah

4. sugar, saccharifyverb

   sweeten with sugar

   "sugar your tea"

   Synonyms:
   saccharify

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1. • Macromolecule

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1. sugarverb

   Synonyms:
   sweeten

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1. sugarnoun

   Synonyms:
   sucrose, saccharose (cane sugar), levulose (fruit sugar), dextrose, glucose (grape sugar), muscovado (unrefined sugar), maltose (malt sugar), lactose (milksugar), inosite (muscle sugar), invert sugar, cassonade (raw sugar), caramel (burnt sugar)

   Associated words:
   sacchariferous, dextrine, sorghum, saccharify, saccharimeter, saccharimetry, saccharin, saccharoid, saccharize

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1. List of paraphrases for "sugar":

   sucre, sugars, zucker, candy, sokker, -sugar, carrot, carbohydrate, diabetes, sweeteners, sucres

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1. Lisa Drayer:

   Look at the ingredients list, if sugar or any one of the following terms are listed high on the label, you want to avoid that food: corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, agave, honey, molasses, and anything ending in 'ose'; dextrose, fructose and sucrose are all code words for sugar.

2. Francis Ratnieks:

   What the caffeine is doing is the plant manipulating the bee in a way that is good for the plant, but not so good for the bee because the bee is kind of being tricked into thinking that the nectar is of a higher quality - that is it has more sugar than it really does.

3. Tanya Altmann:

   I think that school nutrition has improved dramatically over the past five years. The quality is so much better than what it was five and 10 years ago, for instance, there's more fresh fruits, more whole grains are used, less extra, unneeded sugar and calories.

4. Robert Pattinson:

   I kind of realized, I need to be in the perfect balance of serotonin to watch my own stuff. i need to work out beforehand, I need to have an enormous amount of sugar and caffeine. [ Then ] whatever I'm watching, I'm like,' Yes !'.

5. Leana Wen:

   Many times, people think about cutting calories or not consuming fatty foods, but they may not be aware of the dangers of free sugars, when we buy packaged foods — even the ones we don’t think of as being sweet like bread, breakfast cereals, flavored yoghurts or condiments — these foods usually have plenty of added sugar, and it adds up.