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🍷 To add alcohol 🥴 To make drunk
to alcoholize

to alcoholize

1 8.8
To add alcohol to food or drink to make it alcoholic
  • verb
  • /ˈæl.kə.həˌlaɪz/
: alcoholizar
  • The chef decided to alcoholize the cherries by soaking them in brandy overnight.

Examples

  • You can alcoholize desserts to create a unique taste profile for special occasions.

  • Certain fruits are often alcoholized to enhance their flavor and preserve them.

  • They alcoholized the fruit for the cocktail.

  • I want to alcoholize this recipe for the party.

  • The chef decided to alcoholize the cherries by soaking them in brandy overnight.

  • You can alcoholize desserts to create a unique taste profile for special occasions.

  • Certain fruits are often alcoholized to enhance their flavor and preserve them.

Synonyms

to liquor
vsto alcoholize
9 7.0

To add alcohol to food or give people alcoholic drinks

focuses on treating or producing alcohol rather than supplying drinks
to vinify
vsto alcoholize
  • Specialized
1 9.9

To make wine from grape juice by letting it ferment

creates alcohol by adding or producing it rather than only by fermentation
to fortify
vsto alcoholize
1 7.4

Add alcohol to a drink to make it stronger

is broader and covers treating or producing alcohol rather than only strengthening drinks
to chaptalize
vsto alcoholize
  • Specialized
1 9.9

To add sugar to grape juice or fermenting wine to make more alcohol

acts directly to make things alcoholic rather than increasing alcohol via added sugar

How Alcoholic

to saturate
8 5.2
to alcoholize
1 8.8
to infuse
11 4.1
to moisten
15 3.0

Surface Forms

alcoholize infinitive
alcoholized past
alcoholized past participle
alcoholizing present participle
alcoholizes third person singular

Morphology

alcoholize = alcohol (transparent) = alcohol + ize

Regular application of the verb-forming suffix '-ize' to 'alcohol' yields a predictable meaning 'to make or treat with alcohol', which learners can infer from the base.

Etymology

The word alcoholize comes from alcohol, which comes from the Arabic word 'al-kuhl' meaning 'essence' or 'spirit', and the ending -ize meaning 'to make'. So, to alcoholize food is to 'make it alcoholic', for example by soaking cherries in brandy.