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SPICE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make more interesting or flavorful
Example:
Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer
Synonyms:
spice; spice up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spice up"):
salt (add zest or liveliness to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Add herbs or spices to
Synonyms:
spice; spice up; zest
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "spice up" is one way to...):
flavor; flavour; season (lend flavor to)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "spice up"):
ginger (add ginger to in order to add flavor)
pepper (add pepper to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
