caramelize
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- (UK) caramelise
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- (cooking) (transitive) If you caramelize sugar, you convert it into caramel.
- (cooking) (transitive) If you caramelize sugar, you brown it by using heat.
- Slowly cooking the onions will caramelize them, which brings out the sweetness and gives them a brown color.