sugarcoat

verbB2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

sugarcoats

V_ing/Gerund

sugarcoating

V_ed/pp

sugarcoatedsugar coat

1.
(transitive)To coat with sugar.
2.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To make superficially more attractive; to give a falsely pleasant appearance to.
There's no way to sugarcoat the loss of the space shuttle; it was an unmitigated disaster.
Đồng nghĩa: candy-coat, gild, gild the pill, sugarcoat the pill

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

candy-coatgildgild the pillsugarcoat the pillwhitewash

Cùng gốc / liên quan

sugarcoat a bitter pillsugarcoated sugarcoating glazeglaze (of food)

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Nguồn gốc từ

sugar coat From sugar + coat; figurative sense from the practice of coating medicinal tablets or pills with sugar in order to disguise their unpleasant taste (sugarcoating the pill).