desugar

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ sugar.

Verb

desugar (third-person singular simple present desugars, present participle desugaring, simple past and past participle desugared)

  1. (transitive, chiefly food processing) To remove sugar from.
  2. (transitive, programming, informal) To remove syntactic sugar from.
    • 2025 December 20, Luca Lombardo, Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?‎[1]:
      The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array.

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