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; are 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], moola [N. Amer], dosh [Brit]

1. Sweeten with sugar
   "sugar your tea"
   - saccharify

Derived forms: sugars, sugared, sugaring

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

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