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1. A white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative
   - refined sugar
    
2. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain
   - carbohydrate, saccharide
    
3. Informal term for money
   - boodle, bread, cabbage [US], clams [US], dinero [N. Amer], dough, gelt, kale [US], lettuce [US], lolly [Brit], lucre, loot, moolah [N. Amer], pelf [archaic], scratch, shekels, simoleons [US], wampum [N. Amer], wonga [Brit], brass [Brit], moola [N. Amer], mazuma [US], dosh [Brit]

1. Sweeten with sugar
   "sugar your tea";
   - saccharify
    
2. Make more pleasant or agreeable
   "sugar a deal";
   - sweeten

Derived forms: sugars, sugared, sugaring

Type of: alter, change, dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, macromolecule, modify, money, supermolecule, sweeten, sweetener, sweetening

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