Definition of juice in English:

juice

noun dʒuːsdʒus

mass noun

1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables.
add the juice of a lemon
Example sentencesExamples
- Pour and add the lemon juice, salt, honey, pepper and olive oil in a vessel.
- We drink tall mojitos, juleps made with lime juice, rum, and crushed mint.
- Sprinkle with the lemon juice, pepper and add the remaining parsley.
- Drizzle olive oil over everything and add the juice of one lemon and one lime.
- For each mojito we use the juice from one whole lime - and a little of that green skin.
- For fruits low in acid, add lemon juice or other acid ingredients as directed.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar add the lemon juice and stir.
- The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors.
- Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
- Add lemon juice, pepper, and reserved meatballs and mushrooms.
- Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar.
- Add the lemon juice and cider vinegar to the pulp.
- Add the olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper and mulch in your hands.
- Place the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and oil in a screw-top jar and shake well.
- Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper.
- To the cold syrup add the extracted juice and mix by stirring.
- Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lemon juice and mustard, then slowly add the olive oil.
- Since I like doing things by hand I have always extracted juices the old fashioned way.
- Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice.
Synonyms
liquid, fluid, sap
extract
Winemaking taille
1. 1.1 A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice.
  a carton of orange juice
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages.
  Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water.
  It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey.
  I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.
  Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available.
  Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk.
  There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks.
  Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said.
  Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion.
  She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice.
  Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice.
  For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas.
  So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice!
  Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice.
  Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals.
  First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice.
  For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense.
  He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice.
  Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first.
  A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices.
2. 1.2juices The liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked.
  put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices
  Example sentencesExamples
  They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts.
  Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven.
  Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups.
  At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan.
  Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook.
  Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin.
  Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking).
  Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red.
  Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve.
  I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it.
  Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices.
  Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas).
  Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through.
  The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting.
  Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away.
  Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste.
  Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too.
  Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half.
  Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice.
  Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
  Synonyms
  liquid, liquor
3. 1.3juices Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food.
  the digestive juices
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says.
  Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good?
  It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver.
  Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning.
  Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile.
  The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
  This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods.
  Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut.
  Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent.
  Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices.
  Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices.
  Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.
  Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel.
  Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach.
  People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices.
  The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup.
  It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through.
  The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill.
  Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs.
  The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices.
  Synonyms
  secretions
  serum
4. 1.4juices A person's vitality or creative faculties.
  it saps the creative juices
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices.
  In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing.
  There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year.
  An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project.
  The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration.
  Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices.
  Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring.
  To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven.
  My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.
  But think how it could loosen up your creative juices.
  ‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains.
  But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing.
  That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices!
  Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster.
  With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars.
  I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good.
  Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing.
  When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear.
  Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing.
  Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words.
5. 1.5informal Electrical energy.
  the batteries have run out of juice
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply.
  There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.
  Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem.
  You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside.
  Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours.
  Synonyms
  energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power
6. 1.6 Petrol.
  he ran out of juice on the last lap
  Synonyms
  gasoline, gas
7. 1.7North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context.
  Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city
  Example sentencesExamples
  Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home.
  She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy.
  The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement.
  You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you.
  Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements.
  As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’.
  The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this.
  He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
  If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts.
8. 1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink.
  Synonyms
  liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, spirits, intoxicants
9. 1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids.
  I know there are 82 players on the juice
  Example sentencesExamples
  Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much?
  These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!
  Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice.
  So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size.
  Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes.
  He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice.
  The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.
  I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think.
  Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice.
  The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't.

verb dʒuːsdʒus

[with object]

1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables)
juice one orange at a time
Example sentencesExamples
- It can juice fruit and vegetables as well as other leafy greens with the greatest of ease.
- The industrial-strength stainless steel cutting blade is designed to juice fruits and vegetables.
- If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them.
- In another bowl, zest and juice the lemons and limes, then fold through the cream.
- Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains).
- I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher.
- Remember that the next time you let your toddler play in the garden, or the next time you juice a carrot without scrubbing it first.
- When an orange is juiced, fibre and other health-giving elements are left behind.
- I've started eating mince pies, and can't seem to stop, but I'm still juicing the veggies, so hopefully it will balance itself out.
- If this sounds too boring you can spice it up by juicing, eating raw, poaching or baking the food.
- My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit.
- Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice.
2juice something upNorth American informal Liven something up.
they juiced it up with some love interest
Example sentencesExamples
- The pressure to produce sensationalist news at whatever price that characterizes much of the media creates an environment conducive to cutting corners or juicing up a story with fabricated details.
- But we wanted to juice it up with color and modern appliances.
- Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes.
- They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces.
- Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up.
- So to juice it up, we made a short movie all about special effects.
- He's got to juice it up now; it's all or nothing this game.
- But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little.
- Although Liman tries to juice things up by using atypical camera angles, all this does is to lend an artistic flavor to a series of otherwise banal explosions, shoot-outs, and car chases.
- In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction.
3as adjective juicedNorth American informal Drunk.
on his pub crawl he became suitably juiced
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Phrases

get one's creative juices flowing

Start thinking in a creative and lively way.
the workshops allow staff to get away from their desks and get their creative juices flowing
Example sentencesExamples
- Visit a museum or gallery - Just looking at other artwork is enough to get your creative juices flowing.
- If your idea of roughing it is reducing the minutes on your cell phone then this little bootstrapping primer should get your creative juices flowing.
- Its still a nice option to have though, particularly for those who like to get their creative juices flowing.
- Reading took on a spooky theme at Warminster Library on Wednesday when 13 youngsters got their creative juices flowing.
- Government meetings, budgetary matters, legislation aren't the stuff that gets their creative juices flowing.
- The good and strange thing about depression is that is really gets my creative juices flowing.
- Here are a few themes to get your creative juices flowing.
- He sold things such as paper towels and cleaning materials to companies but it hardly got his creative juices flowing.
- Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
- Here are a couple of suggestions to get your creative juices flowing.

Derivatives

juiceless

adjective ˈdʒuːsləsˈdʒusləs

After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it.
Example sentencesExamples
- In front of a bristling, Bristol crowd Pietersen pounded a quite astonishing innings that transformed England from a juiceless juggernaut into a valiant vehicle still on the winning track.
- Words, he says, are useless; they've been used up until they're thoroughly juiceless.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus 'broth, vegetable juice'.

Rhymes

abstruse, abuse, adduce, Ballets Russes, Belarus, Bruce, burnous, caboose, charlotte russe, conduce, deduce, deuce, diffuse, douce, educe, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, Larousse, loose, luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, obtuse, Palouse, produce, profuse, puce, recluse, reduce, Rousse, seduce, sluice, Sousse, spruce, traduce, truce, use, vamoose, Zeus

Definition of juice in US English:

juice

noundʒusjo͞os

1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables.
add the juice of a lemon
Example sentencesExamples
- Add lemon juice, pepper, and reserved meatballs and mushrooms.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar add the lemon juice and stir.
- We drink tall mojitos, juleps made with lime juice, rum, and crushed mint.
- Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice.
- To the cold syrup add the extracted juice and mix by stirring.
- Place the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and oil in a screw-top jar and shake well.
- The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors.
- For each mojito we use the juice from one whole lime - and a little of that green skin.
- Since I like doing things by hand I have always extracted juices the old fashioned way.
- Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar.
- Pour and add the lemon juice, salt, honey, pepper and olive oil in a vessel.
- Drizzle olive oil over everything and add the juice of one lemon and one lime.
- Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan.
- For fruits low in acid, add lemon juice or other acid ingredients as directed.
- Sprinkle with the lemon juice, pepper and add the remaining parsley.
- Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste.
- Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lemon juice and mustard, then slowly add the olive oil.
- Add the lemon juice and cider vinegar to the pulp.
- Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper.
- Add the olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper and mulch in your hands.
Synonyms
liquid, fluid, sap
1. 1.1 A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice.
  a carton of orange juice
  Example sentencesExamples
  Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion.
  Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice.
  He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice.
  First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice.
  For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas.
  Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water.
  Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available.
  For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense.
  Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk.
  Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages.
  Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice.
  There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks.
  A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices.
  Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first.
  I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.
  Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said.
  She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice.
  Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals.
  So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice!
  It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey.
2. 1.2juices The liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking).
  Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas).
  Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin.
  Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve.
  Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away.
  Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice.
  Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half.
  Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through.
  Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red.
  Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste.
  The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting.
  Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices.
  Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook.
  Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly.
  I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it.
  Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups.
  At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan.
  Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too.
  Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven.
  They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts.
  Synonyms
  liquid, liquor
3. 1.3juices Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good?
  Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says.
  This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods.
  It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through.
  Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent.
  The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices.
  It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver.
  Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut.
  Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach.
  The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup.
  Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile.
  Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices.
  Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices.
  Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning.
  The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill.
  Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food.
  Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs.
  The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins.
  People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices.
  Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel.
  Synonyms
  secretions
4. 1.4juices A person's vitality or creative faculties.
  it saps the creative juices
  Example sentencesExamples
  That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices!
  Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices.
  The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration.
  But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing.
  When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear.
  Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing.
  Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster.
  Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing.
  An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project.
  Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices.
  To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven.
  There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year.
  But think how it could loosen up your creative juices.
  I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good.
  ‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains.
  Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring.
  With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars.
  Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words.
  In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing.
  My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom.
5. 1.5informal Electrical energy.
  the batteries have run out of juice
  Example sentencesExamples
  Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours.
  There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle.
  Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply.
  Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem.
  You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside.
  Synonyms
  energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power
6. 1.6 Gasoline.
  he ran out of juice on the last lap
  Synonyms
  gasoline, gas
7. 1.7North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context.
  Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city
  Example sentencesExamples
  You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you.
  Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements.
  Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home.
  If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts.
  He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command.
  The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement.
  The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this.
  She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy.
  As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’.
8. 1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink.
  Synonyms
  liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, spirits, intoxicants
9. 1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids.
  Example sentencesExamples
  These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates!
  Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much?
  I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think.
  The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice.
  So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size.
  The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't.
  He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice.
  Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice.
  Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes.
  Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice.

verbdʒusjo͞os

[with object]

1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables)
juice one orange at a time
Example sentencesExamples
- When an orange is juiced, fibre and other health-giving elements are left behind.
- Remember that the next time you let your toddler play in the garden, or the next time you juice a carrot without scrubbing it first.
- My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit.
- It can juice fruit and vegetables as well as other leafy greens with the greatest of ease.
- I've started eating mince pies, and can't seem to stop, but I'm still juicing the veggies, so hopefully it will balance itself out.
- Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains).
- I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher.
- If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them.
- In another bowl, zest and juice the lemons and limes, then fold through the cream.
- The industrial-strength stainless steel cutting blade is designed to juice fruits and vegetables.
- If this sounds too boring you can spice it up by juicing, eating raw, poaching or baking the food.
- Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice.
2juice something upNorth American informal Liven something up.
they juiced it up with some love interest
Example sentencesExamples
- Although Liman tries to juice things up by using atypical camera angles, all this does is to lend an artistic flavor to a series of otherwise banal explosions, shoot-outs, and car chases.
- So to juice it up, we made a short movie all about special effects.
- But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little.
- He's got to juice it up now; it's all or nothing this game.
- The pressure to produce sensationalist news at whatever price that characterizes much of the media creates an environment conducive to cutting corners or juicing up a story with fabricated details.
- They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces.
- In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction.
- Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes.
- But we wanted to juice it up with color and modern appliances.
- Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up.
3as adjective juicedNorth American informal Drunk.
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus ‘broth, vegetable juice’.

单词	juice
释义	Definition of juice in English: juice noun dʒuːsdʒus mass noun 1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables. add the juice of a lemon Example sentencesExamples Pour and add the lemon juice, salt, honey, pepper and olive oil in a vessel. We drink tall mojitos, juleps made with lime juice, rum, and crushed mint. Sprinkle with the lemon juice, pepper and add the remaining parsley. Drizzle olive oil over everything and add the juice of one lemon and one lime. For each mojito we use the juice from one whole lime - and a little of that green skin. For fruits low in acid, add lemon juice or other acid ingredients as directed. Beat the eggs with the sugar add the lemon juice and stir. The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors. Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Add lemon juice, pepper, and reserved meatballs and mushrooms. Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar. Add the lemon juice and cider vinegar to the pulp. Add the olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper and mulch in your hands. Place the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and oil in a screw-top jar and shake well. Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper. To the cold syrup add the extracted juice and mix by stirring. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lemon juice and mustard, then slowly add the olive oil. Since I like doing things by hand I have always extracted juices the old fashioned way. Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice. Synonyms liquid, fluid, sap extract Winemaking taille 1.1 A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice. a carton of orange juice Example sentencesExamples Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages. Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water. It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey. I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience. Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available. Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk. There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks. Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said. Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion. She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice. Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice. For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas. So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice! Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice. Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals. First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice. For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense. He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice. Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first. A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices. 1.2juices The liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked. put with the salmon, reserving the cooking juices Example sentencesExamples They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts. Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven. Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups. At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan. Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook. Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin. Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking). Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red. Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve. I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it. Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices. Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas). Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through. The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting. Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away. Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste. Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too. Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half. Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice. Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly. Synonyms liquid, liquor 1.3juices Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food. the digestive juices Example sentencesExamples Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says. Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good? It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver. Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning. Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile. The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins. This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods. Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut. Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent. Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices. Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices. Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food. Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel. Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach. People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices. The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup. It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through. The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill. Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs. The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices. Synonyms secretions serum 1.4juices A person's vitality or creative faculties. it saps the creative juices Example sentencesExamples Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices. In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing. There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year. An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project. The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration. Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices. Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring. To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven. My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom. But think how it could loosen up your creative juices. ‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains. But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing. That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices! Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster. With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars. I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good. Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing. When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear. Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing. Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words. 1.5informal Electrical energy. the batteries have run out of juice Example sentencesExamples Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply. There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle. Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem. You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside. Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours. Synonyms energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power 1.6 Petrol. he ran out of juice on the last lap Synonyms gasoline, gas 1.7North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context. Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city Example sentencesExamples Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home. She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy. The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement. You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you. Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements. As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’. The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this. He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command. If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts. 1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink. Synonyms liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, spirits, intoxicants 1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids. I know there are 82 players on the juice Example sentencesExamples Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much? These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates! Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice. So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size. Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes. He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice. The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice. I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think. Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice. The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't. verb dʒuːsdʒus [with object] 1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables) juice one orange at a time Example sentencesExamples It can juice fruit and vegetables as well as other leafy greens with the greatest of ease. The industrial-strength stainless steel cutting blade is designed to juice fruits and vegetables. If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them. In another bowl, zest and juice the lemons and limes, then fold through the cream. Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains). I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher. Remember that the next time you let your toddler play in the garden, or the next time you juice a carrot without scrubbing it first. When an orange is juiced, fibre and other health-giving elements are left behind. I've started eating mince pies, and can't seem to stop, but I'm still juicing the veggies, so hopefully it will balance itself out. If this sounds too boring you can spice it up by juicing, eating raw, poaching or baking the food. My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit. Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice. 2juice something upNorth American informal Liven something up. they juiced it up with some love interest Example sentencesExamples The pressure to produce sensationalist news at whatever price that characterizes much of the media creates an environment conducive to cutting corners or juicing up a story with fabricated details. But we wanted to juice it up with color and modern appliances. Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces. Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up. So to juice it up, we made a short movie all about special effects. He's got to juice it up now; it's all or nothing this game. But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little. Although Liman tries to juice things up by using atypical camera angles, all this does is to lend an artistic flavor to a series of otherwise banal explosions, shoot-outs, and car chases. In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction. 3as adjective juicedNorth American informal Drunk. on his pub crawl he became suitably juiced Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin Phrases get one's creative juices flowing Start thinking in a creative and lively way. the workshops allow staff to get away from their desks and get their creative juices flowing Example sentencesExamples Visit a museum or gallery - Just looking at other artwork is enough to get your creative juices flowing. If your idea of roughing it is reducing the minutes on your cell phone then this little bootstrapping primer should get your creative juices flowing. Its still a nice option to have though, particularly for those who like to get their creative juices flowing. Reading took on a spooky theme at Warminster Library on Wednesday when 13 youngsters got their creative juices flowing. Government meetings, budgetary matters, legislation aren't the stuff that gets their creative juices flowing. The good and strange thing about depression is that is really gets my creative juices flowing. Here are a few themes to get your creative juices flowing. He sold things such as paper towels and cleaning materials to companies but it hardly got his creative juices flowing. Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Here are a couple of suggestions to get your creative juices flowing. Derivatives juiceless adjective ˈdʒuːsləsˈdʒusləs After spending time with Gina and contemplating my own woefully juiceless existence, I resolved to do something about it. Example sentencesExamples In front of a bristling, Bristol crowd Pietersen pounded a quite astonishing innings that transformed England from a juiceless juggernaut into a valiant vehicle still on the winning track. Words, he says, are useless; they've been used up until they're thoroughly juiceless. Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus 'broth, vegetable juice'. Rhymes abstruse, abuse, adduce, Ballets Russes, Belarus, Bruce, burnous, caboose, charlotte russe, conduce, deduce, deuce, diffuse, douce, educe, excuse, goose, induce, introduce, Larousse, loose, luce, misuse, moose, mousse, noose, obtuse, Palouse, produce, profuse, puce, recluse, reduce, Rousse, seduce, sluice, Sousse, spruce, traduce, truce, use, vamoose, Zeus noun.1 phr. Definition of juice in US English: juice noundʒusjo͞os 1The liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables. add the juice of a lemon Example sentencesExamples Add lemon juice, pepper, and reserved meatballs and mushrooms. Beat the eggs with the sugar add the lemon juice and stir. We drink tall mojitos, juleps made with lime juice, rum, and crushed mint. Add mustard and all of the herbs and spices to the white sauce then add lemon juice. To the cold syrup add the extracted juice and mix by stirring. Place the lemon juice, mustard, salt, pepper and oil in a screw-top jar and shake well. The fact that you don't need an electrical appliance to extract juice from a watermelon also comes as a blessing for these vendors. For each mojito we use the juice from one whole lime - and a little of that green skin. Since I like doing things by hand I have always extracted juices the old fashioned way. Serve with fresh fruit and maple syrup or lemon juice and sugar. Pour and add the lemon juice, salt, honey, pepper and olive oil in a vessel. Drizzle olive oil over everything and add the juice of one lemon and one lime. Combine oil, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, sugar, and herbs in a small saucepan. For fruits low in acid, add lemon juice or other acid ingredients as directed. Sprinkle with the lemon juice, pepper and add the remaining parsley. Once the cheese has melted, add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and stir in the vinegar, lemon juice and mustard, then slowly add the olive oil. Add the lemon juice and cider vinegar to the pulp. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the vinegar, lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper. Add the olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper and mulch in your hands. Synonyms liquid, fluid, sap 1.1 A drink made from fruit or vegetable juice. a carton of orange juice Example sentencesExamples Watch out for acidic drinks, such as fizzy drinks and fruit juices, as they can cause tooth erosion. Last time James had stomach problems after drinking too much orange juice. He griped because I had drunk all his orange juice. First of all pub visits would mean drinking cola or orange juice. For the thirsty, there are stalls specializing in freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, papaya milk shakes and cold teas. Replace fruit juice and soft drinks with ice water. Soft drinks, fruit juices, and mineral waters are widely available. For palates that have grown up with an array of soft drinks and fruit juices, that flavor profile can be a little too intense. Water is the most common beverage, but coconut water and fruit juices also are drunk. Stick to bottled water and canned soft drinks, fruit juices, and alcoholic beverages. Drink plenty of fruit juices, like orange juice and grape juice. There is a selection of imported fruit juices and soft drinks. A good way to break the habit of skipping breakfast is to make and drink fresh fruit or vegetable juices. Choose water, club soda, diet soda, fruit juice, tea and coffee first. I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience. Since the surgery, the woman has eaten strawberries and chocolate and drunk coffee and fruit juice, her doctors said. She cursed to herself for drinking all that fruit juice. Fruit and vegetable juices are loaded with vitamins and minerals. So take your mother's advice and drink some orange juice! It is also used for other natural products, including fruit juices, beer, wine and honey. 1.2juices The liquid that comes from meat or other food when cooked. Example sentencesExamples Brush each piece of lamb with Dijon mustard, then roll in the breadcrumbs (this will stop the puff pastry from absorbing the juices when it is cooking). Cook all meats completely (the juices should be clear and there should be no pink areas). Baste with cooking juices throughout for golden crispy skin. Pour the fig dressing into the pan, stirring to combine with the meat juices, then drizzle around the liver and serve. Add the garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper and cook for 5 min or until the juices almost cook away. Pass the cooking juices through a food mill into a saucepan and stir in the lemon juice. Strain the cooking juices into a saucepan and boil to reduce by half. Add the pickled sloes to the cooking juices and warm through. Cook meat thoroughly; juices should be brown, not pink or red. Strain in the juices and oil from cooking until you have a smooth paste. The rotation slowly cooks the meat in its own juices and allows easy access for continuous basting. Leave a thin layer of fat on steaks, chops, and roasts during cooking to seal in juices. Pizzas are grilled, and kebabs threaded with bread between the chunks of meat, to soak up their juices as they cook. Add four tbsp of the juices to the shredded meat, taste for seasoning and adjust accordingly. I just serve it with the cooking juices and lemon wedges to squeeze over it. Piercing the meat with a fork can release juices and fat that can cause flame flare-ups. At this point the vegetables should be cooked but not colored, and there should be cooking juices at the bottom of the pan. Allowing a roast or a whole fish to rest after being cooked so the juices can work themselves through the meat is slow cooking, too. Pour on the marinade juices and cook for one hour in a medium oven. They ate food cooked in their juices over fires fuelled from their husks, and used antiseptic squeezed from them on cuts. Synonyms liquid, liquor 1.3juices Fluid secreted by the body, especially in the stomach to help digest food. Example sentencesExamples Does it need stomach juices to disintegrate or is my aspirin no good? Stomach juices must break them into small pieces before they can be absorbed through the stomach wall and enter the bloodstream, Phillips says. This gland secretes digestive juices that help in breaking down foods. It usually starts in the inner lining of the tube that the digestive juices flow through. Tastes abound, but smells, the scents that get the salivary juices running, are absent. The essential oils found in the leaves even aid digestion by increasing the flow of digestive juices. It stores digestive juices that are made by the liver. Chewing food thoroughly makes smaller food particles that dissolve much more easily in the digestive juices in the gut. Hydrolysis also goes on in the strongly acid digestive juices of the stomach. The stomach releases digestive juices and absorbs the resulting soup. Gall stones may lodge at the intersection, causing obstruction to the flow of pancreatic juices or bile. Large meals put increased demands on digestion, since your body is only able to produce a certain volume of digestive juices. Like peppermint, it helps your body expel gas, but it also stimulates your digestive juices. Just a bite or two to get the stomach juices churning. The acids and digestive juices in the stomach and intestines would break down and destroy insulin if it was swallowed, so it can't be taken in a pill. Artichoke leaf extract stimulates digestive juices like saliva and bile to help you break down food. Further, if the digestive juices are slowed in their transit, constipation occurs. The pancreas makes and secretes digestive juices and enzymes, which help break down fats, carbohydrates and proteins. People under stress may also bolt their food, creating extra work for their digestive juices. Digestive problems may occur if the cancer blocks the release of pancreatic juices into the bowel. Synonyms secretions 1.4juices A person's vitality or creative faculties. it saps the creative juices Example sentencesExamples That's what you need to stimulate the creative juices! Stuck for ideas, they went to the pub to top up their creative juices. The creative juices were flowing in Hacketstown recently as the town's young people looked to their own town for inspiration. But the creative juices have somewhat dried up - for now - and I think it's time I took a break from writing. When we're excited about a project, our creative juices and mental faculties are in full gear. Eating outside usually got her creative juices flowing. Budding film writers are to be offered help to set their creative juices free with a new course in Lancaster. Parenthood, it seems, gets everyone's creative juices flowing. An architect by profession, Noel let his creative juices loose on the project. Fantasies start to flow, and so do Sarah's creative juices. To help their creative juices flow, the students were divided into four groups of seven. There is still time to get the creative juices running and this could be a profitable exercise as the prize money on offer in the competition has increased this year. But think how it could loosen up your creative juices. I'm frequently lacking any any creative juices, and feedback is good. ‘Too often, directors starve the creative juices of the actors,’ McDonald explains. Flavors get lighter and fruitier in the spring and that sap-rising energy gets creative juices flowing, and pouring. With party think tanks, big and small, uncorking their creative juices, seminal works take centre stage and artistic expressions reach for the stars. Let your creative juices flow, draw inspiration and give words. In fact, we'll be using the furniture, posts, doors and other fixtures in ways guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing. My creative juices boil at the prospect of national stardom. 1.5informal Electrical energy. the batteries have run out of juice Example sentencesExamples Switches, outlets and fixtures are the gateways through which your electrical juice pours. There is no need to wait on the engine as there is plenty of electric juice to launch the vehicle. Such electronics suck a lot of juice - power that the beefy hydrogen cells ably supply. Supplying the juice for all this electrical stuff is the next problem. You need electric juice to mix up all those fruity summer drinks to be enjoyed poolside. Synonyms energy, electrical power, nuclear power, solar power, steam power, water power 1.6 Gasoline. he ran out of juice on the last lap Synonyms gasoline, gas 1.7North American informal Influence or power, especially in a political or business context. Lucchese was involved in the case and he had a certain amount of juice around the city Example sentencesExamples You should have enough juice to get the Agency to cooperate with you. Large contractors have more financial juice to make a case go away—to hire pricey legal talent, create compliance programs, or pay settlements. Being a congressman just gives him a little more juice with the ward-heelers, union guys and pinstripe guys back home. If he has been less than popular on Capitol Hill, he has juice where it counts. He was conspiratorial, possessing mysterious juice with the ownership, able to operate completely outside the normal chain of command. The companies convinced us that they had some juice on Capitol Hill, that they could sell this settlement. The sergeant's tone is meant to remind me that foreign journalists have no juice whatsoever in a place like this. She is not yet ready to use her juice to alter Administration policy. As the P.A.'s clerk, I was some sort of a big shot myself; in con jargon, I had a lot of ‘juice’. 1.8North American informal Alcoholic drink. Synonyms liquor, intoxicating liquor, alcoholic drink, strong drink, drink, spirits, intoxicants 1.9North American informal Anabolic steroids. Example sentencesExamples These guys are easy to spot when they are on the juice because if you get a good look at their eyes at the start line their pupils are as big as dinner plates! Want evidence that the steroid crackdown is working and the players aren't using using juice as much? I still don't believe the juice use is as widespread as he would like us to think. The Cuban-born player then had the audacity to claim in a tell-all book that most professional baseballs players are on the juice. So many guys who jump on the juice early end up looking like helium balloons before they deflate to normal size. The third argument, of course, is that barring steroids is all about fairness; that it's iniquitous when some players are on the juice and others aren't. He said that maybe half of all major league players were on the juice. Experts say a mature athlete can add 30 pounds of lean muscle mass by getting on the juice. Those wrestlers were either too fat or so pumped up on the juice they would blow up after 2 minutes. Virtually everyone in the sport suspected that he was on the juice. verbdʒusjo͞os [with object] 1Extract the juice from (fruit or vegetables) juice one orange at a time Example sentencesExamples When an orange is juiced, fibre and other health-giving elements are left behind. Remember that the next time you let your toddler play in the garden, or the next time you juice a carrot without scrubbing it first. My mother had often sprinkled the multifaceted, ruby-like pomegranate seeds on fruit salads at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I had never considered juicing the fruit. It can juice fruit and vegetables as well as other leafy greens with the greatest of ease. I've started eating mince pies, and can't seem to stop, but I'm still juicing the veggies, so hopefully it will balance itself out. Eating the fruit or extracting the seeds and juicing them is time-consuming and messy (the juice stains). I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher. If people don't like eating vegetables, they suggest juicing them. In another bowl, zest and juice the lemons and limes, then fold through the cream. The industrial-strength stainless steel cutting blade is designed to juice fruits and vegetables. If this sounds too boring you can spice it up by juicing, eating raw, poaching or baking the food. Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink the juice. 2juice something upNorth American informal Liven something up. they juiced it up with some love interest Example sentencesExamples Although Liman tries to juice things up by using atypical camera angles, all this does is to lend an artistic flavor to a series of otherwise banal explosions, shoot-outs, and car chases. So to juice it up, we made a short movie all about special effects. But that would be silly, like tacking some ill-conceived speculation onto the end of a story about boring financial statements to juice it up a little. He's got to juice it up now; it's all or nothing this game. The pressure to produce sensationalist news at whatever price that characterizes much of the media creates an environment conducive to cutting corners or juicing up a story with fabricated details. They have juiced things up by turning Hyde into a sex fiend whose animal lusts culminate when he tears a prominent socialite to pieces. In fact, it's almost as if the situation of a love letter juices them up and gives them some of their best prose that they can then put into their fiction. Anytime the pace seems to flag (it does so with clockwork precision) the music is juiced up and things explode and then our heroes are back where they started - negotiating even bigger plot-holes. But we wanted to juice it up with color and modern appliances. Portfolios have sunk along with the technology stocks that juiced them up. 3as adjective juicedNorth American informal Drunk. Synonyms intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin jus ‘broth, vegetable juice’.
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