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Caramelize

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To convert or be converted into caramel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To convert sugar into caramel.

v. To brown sugar by means of heat.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. to to convert [usu. sugar] into caramel, by the action of heat.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To transform or convert into caramel: as, caramelized sugar.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. convert to caramel

v. be converted into caramel

Word Usage

"As they cook, the onions keep going and eventually they are going to caramelize, which is a controlled burn of the sugars in the onion, and that's going to give a savory sweet underflavor to the soup."

Verb Form

caramelized caramelizes caramelizing

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

convert

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

caramelise