SPICE UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spice up mean? 

• SPICE UP (verb)
  The verb SPICE UP has 2 senses:

1. add herbs or spices to

2. make more interesting or flavorful

  Familiarity information: SPICE UP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPICE UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add herbs or spices to

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

spice; spice up; zest

Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):

flavor; flavour; season (lend flavor to)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spice up"):

ginger (add ginger to in order to add flavor)

pepper (add pepper to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make more interesting or flavorful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

spice; spice up

Context example:

Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer

Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spice up"):

salt (add zest or liveliness to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Lucky you, Venus will move through fellow fire-sign Aries from February 7 until March 4 and will also work to spice up your love life.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)