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ACIDULATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does acidulate mean?
• ACIDULATE (verb)
The verb ACIDULATE has 1 sense:
1. make sour or more sour
Familiarity information: ACIDULATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they acidulate ... he / she / it acidulates
Past simple: acidulated
Past participle: acidulated
-ing form: acidulating
... he / she / it acidulates Past simple: acidulated
Past participle: acidulated
-ing form: acidulating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make sour or more sour
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
acetify; acidify; acidulate; sour
Hypernyms (to "acidulate" is one way to...):
change taste (alter the flavor of)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
acid (any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt)
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