edulcorate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēdulcōrō. Compare French édulcorer.

Verb

edulcorate (third-person singular simple present edulcorates, present participle edulcorating, simple past and past participle edulcorated)

1. (rare) To sweeten.
2. (rare) To make more acceptable or palatable.
   • 2019, Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Alfred A. Knopf, page 129:

     I guess I am simply accustomed to dealing with more edulcorated versions of xenophobia.

3. (rare) To free from acidity.
   • 1663, Robert Boyle, “Essay V. Proposing Some Particulars wherein Natural Philosophy may be Useful to the Therapeutical Part of Physick.”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, part II, section I (Of It’s Usefulness to Physick), chapter VI, pages 159–160:

     The more Judicious of the Chymiſts themſelves do ſeveral of them novv acknovvledge, that the bare reducing of Pearls to fine Povvder, affords a Medicine much richer in the Vertues of the Pearls, then the Magiſtery, prepar'd by diſſolving them in acid Spirits, and precipitating them vvith Oyl of Tartar, and aftervvards ſcrupulously edulcorating them.

Derived terms

• edulcoration

Translations

to sweeten

• French: édulcorer (fr)
• Italian: edulcorare (it)

to free from acidity

Anagrams

• cleared out

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

edulcorate

1. inflection of edulcorare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

edulcorate f pl

1. feminine plural of edulcorato

Spanish

Verb

edulcorate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of edulcorar combined with te