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to dulcorate

to dulcorate

9.9
To make food or drink taste sweeter
  • verb
  • /dʌlˈkɔːreɪt/
  • Archaic
translation icon : endulzar
  • The chef chose to dulcorate the tart sauce with a touch of honey.

Examples

  • Pharmacists sometimes dulcorate medicines to make them more palatable for children.

  • Adding vanilla extract will dulcorate the mixture and enhance its flavor.

  • I dulcorate my tea.

  • She dulcorates her coffee every morning.

  • Pharmacists sometimes dulcorate medicines to make them more palatable for children.

  • The chef chose to dulcorate the tart sauce with a touch of honey.

  • Adding vanilla extract will dulcorate the mixture and enhance its flavor.

Synonyms

to sweeten
vsto dulcorate
25 3.0

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

refers only to making taste sweeter not to improving situations
to sugar
vsto dulcorate
3 1.0

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

can mean making taste sweeter by other methods not only by adding that substance
to edulcorate
vsto dulcorate
  • Formal
9.9

To make something taste sweeter

is the same meaning but differs only in form
to dulcify
vsto dulcorate
9.9

To make food or drink taste sweeter

is the same meaning but differs only in form
to saccharify
vsto dulcorate
  • Specialized
9.9

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

is about making taste sweeter in general not about chemical conversion

How Sweet

to caramelize
  • Specialized
21 4.4
to dulcorate
  • Archaic
9.9
to sweeten
25 3.0

Surface Forms

dulcorate infinitive
dulcorated past
dulcorated past participle
dulcorating present participle
dulcorates third person singular

Morphology

dulcorate = dulcor + ate

Although built from the Latin-derived combining form 'dulcor' + the verb-forming suffix '-ate', 'dulcor' is not a productive or standalone English base that learners know, so the meaning 'to sweeten' is not reliably derivable by an average B1 learner.

Etymology

The word dulcorate comes from the Latin root dulc- which means 'sweet', and you can see the same root in English dulcet and in Spanish 'dulce'. So, to dulcorate something is to make it sweeter or 'sweeten' it.