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sauce
[ saws ]
noun
- any preparation, usually liquid or semiliquid, eaten as a gravy or as a relish accompanying food.
- stewed fruit, often puréed and served as an accompaniment to meat, dessert, or other food:
cranberry sauce.
- something that adds piquance or zest.
- Informal. sauciness; impertinence; impudence.
- Slang. Usually the sauce. hard liquor:
He's on the sauce again.
- Archaic. garden vegetables eaten with meat.
verb (used with object)
- to dress or prepare with sauce; season:
meat well sauced.
- to make a sauce of:
Tomatoes must be sauced while ripe.
- to give piquance or zest to.
- to make agreeable or less harsh.
- Informal. to speak impertinently or saucily to.
sauce
/ ɔː /
noun
- any liquid or semiliquid preparation eaten with food to enhance its flavour
- anything that adds piquancy
- stewed fruit
- dialect.vegetables eaten with meat
- informal.impudent language or behaviour
verb
- to prepare (food) with sauce
- to add zest to
- to make agreeable or less severe
- informal.to be saucy to
Derived Forms
- ˈܳ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ܳl adjective
- v·ܳ verb (used with object) oversauced oversaucing
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of sauce1
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with sauce , also see hit the bottle (sauce) .Example Sentences
Use scraps for stocks or sauces, get creative with leftovers, and store ingredients properly to extend their shelf life.
Altogether, the color, flavor and textural differentiation is incredibly varied: briny, oily, herbaceous sauce slicks the crisped salmon, with the crunchy leeks providing another dimension of flavor and texture.
As temperatures rise, there's one particular sauce that embodies the brightness, promise and ease of spring-into-summer: pesto.
Like his competitors at Unitree, Mr Pierce says that the real "secret sauce" is the software that allows the robot to work with humans.
The soup base can also be incorporated with heavy cream to make a decadent, spring-themed pasta sauce that pairs well with seafood, like grilled salmon or pan seared shrimp.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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