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sugar
A	noun
	1	sugar, refined sugar
				a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
		Category Tree: entity ╚substance; matter ╚food; nutrient ╚foodstuff; food product ╚ingredient; fixings ╚flavorer; flavourer; flavoring; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning ╚sweetening; sweetener ╚sugar, refined sugar ╚brown sugar ╚corn sugar ╚beet sugar ╚granulated sugar ╚cane sugar ╚sugarloaf; sugar loaf; loaf sugar ╚lump sugar ╚caramel; caramelized sugar
	2	boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
				informal terms for money
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚signal; signaling; sign ╚indicator ╚reference point; point of reference; reference ╚standard; criterion; measure; touchstone ╚medium of exchange; monetary system ╚money ╚boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
	3	carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar
				an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
		Category Tree: entity ╚thing ╚unit; building block ╚molecule ╚macromolecule; supermolecule ╚carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar ╚wood sugar; xylose ╚jaggery; jagghery; jaggary ╚polysaccharide; polyose ╚oligosaccharide ╚monosaccharide; monosaccharose; simple sugar ╚maple sugar ╚invert sugar ╚deoxyribose ╚cane sugar ╚beet sugar ╚ribose
B	verb
	1	sugar, saccharify
				sweeten with sugar; "sugar your tea"
		Category Tree: change; alter; modify ╚change taste ╚sweeten; dulcify; edulcorate; dulcorate ╚sugar, saccharify

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suffused
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suffusive
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sugarberry
sugar bowl
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sugar candy
sugarcane
sugar cane
sugarcoat
sugar-coated

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