Syrup

/ˈsɪ.ɹəp/ · noun

Meaning

Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring..

Definitions by Sense

1. Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
2. (by extension) Any viscous liquid.
3. (figurative) Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
4. (Cockney rhyming slang, shortened from "syrup of figs") A wig.
5. (transitive) To convert or process into syrup.
6. (transitive) To add syrup to.
7. (transitive) To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.

Example Sentences

maple syrup

pancake syrup

peaches in syrup

With jellies soother than the creamy curd, / And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; [...]

cough syrup

rose syrup

Eventually, he or his staunch public tired of his easy-listening syrup, so Price recorded gospel for the Myrrh label before semi-retiring to his Golden Cross Ranch in Texas.

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Antonyms for syrup

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Word Forms

• syrups
• sirop
• sirup
• syrop
• syruping
• syruped

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