to dulcify

9.9

To make food or drink taste sweeter

verb
/ˈdʌl.sɪ.faɪ/

: endulzar

You can dulcify the sauce by adding some sugar or maple syrup.

Examples

To dulcify the bitterness of the dark chocolate, try mixing in some sweetened whipped cream.
A dose of acetum saturninum, acid of sulfur dulcified.

Snow White (2025)
Adding honey will dulcify the tea and make it more enjoyable.

Synonyms

to sweeten

vsto dulcify

25 3.0

Make food taste sweeter by adding sugar or make an offer more attractive

is only about making taste sweeter not about offers or situations

to sugar

vsto dulcify

3 1.0

To add a sweet white substance from plants to food or drink to make it sweet

is broader covering any way of making taste sweeter not only adding that substance

to dulcorate

vsto dulcify

Archaic

9.9

To make food or drink taste sweeter

is the same in meaning but differs only as an alternative form

to edulcorate

vsto dulcify

Formal

9.9

To make something taste sweeter

is the same in meaning but differs only as an alternative form

to saccharify

vsto dulcify

Specialized

9.9

To change plant starch and other plant parts into sugar using enzymes or chemicals

is simple taste sweetening not a technical chemical conversion

How Sweet

to saccharify

Specialized

9.9

to dulcify

9.9

to sweeten

25 3.0

Surface Forms

dulcify infinitive

dulcified past

dulcified past participle

dulcifying present participle

dulcifies third person singular

Morphology

dulcify = dulc + ify

Formed from the Latin combining form 'dulc-' (meaning 'sweet') plus the productive English suffix '-ify', but 'dulc-' is not a standalone English word and there is no obvious recognisable English base for learners to use to infer the meaning.

Etymology

Dulcify comes from the old Latin word dulcis meaning 'sweet', a root you also see in English dulcet and Spanish 'dulce'. The ending -fy means 'make', so to dulcify is to 'make sweet', which is why it means to sweeten a taste.