Definitions for syrup

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syrup syr·up

Spelling: [sir-uh p, sur-]

IPA: /ˈsɪr əp, ˈsɜr-/

Syrup is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in syrup (prsuy).

Definitions for syrup

noun

1. any of various thick, sweet liquids prepared for table use from molasses, glucose, etc., water, and often a flavoring agent.
2. any of various preparations consisting of fruit juices, water, etc., boiled with sugar:
3. Pharmacology. a concentrated sugar solution that contains medication or flavoring.
4. simple syrup.

verb (used with object)

1. to bring to the form or consistency of syrup.
2. to cover, fill, or sweeten with syrup.

Origin of syrup

1350-1400; Medieval Latin syrupus Arabic sharāb a drink; replacing Middle English sirop Middle French Medieval Latin, as above

Examples for syrup

The quartet is presented with a pitcher of syrup, which the waiter advises we apply “temperately, but not timidly.”

This hole is to enable the syrup to penetrate the inside of the lemons.

If you put the syrup hot to the ginger at first, it will shrink and shrivel.

Give me some more of the syrup, and then come and repeat the verse that I taught you the other day.

Then poor the syrup from the lemons, and spread them on a large dish.

He told MTV News in 2008 that quitting the syrup “feels like death in your stomach when you stop.”

A bag of syrup in a box meets carbonated (or non-carbonated water) to produce a drink on demand.

It turned out the bees had discovered a maraschino cherry factory in Red Hook and started bringing the syrup back to the hive.

Then, having poured it from the ginger, boil the syrup over again.

On the northeasternmost point of the U.S., pancake-like ployes are a daily staple, whether covered in syrup or soaking up gravy.