desugar
English
Etymology 1
Verb
desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)
- (transitive, principally, food processing) To remove sugar from.
Etymology 2
de- + sugar as in syntactic sugar
Verb
desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)
- (transitive, computing, informal) To translate the source code of a computer program into a functionally equivalent form devoid of syntactic sugar.