desugar

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-der.

English de-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂

Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH

Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH

Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)

Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.

Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.

Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.

Old Italian zuccherobor.

Old French çucrebor.

Middle English sugre

English sugar

English desugar

From de- + sugar.

Verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

1. (transitive, chiefly food processing) To remove sugar from.
2. (transitive, programming, informal) To remove syntactic sugar from.
   • 2025 December 20, Luca Lombardo, Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?‎^[1]:

     The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array.

Anagrams

• dargues, guardes, sugared