Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
To enhance the flavor of something by adding spice to it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- January 2008, The Eagle-Tribune - Fresh or dried? Spice up your cooking with the right seasonings
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To make more exotic, fun or extravagant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
make more interesting or flavorful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spice
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: salt
add herbs or spices to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: zest, spice
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: season, flavor, flavour
Narrower terms: ginger, pepper
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
-
Chinese Mandarin:
加辣
(jiālà)
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
French:
pimenter
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
German:
aufpeppen
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Hungarian:
megfűszerez
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Italian:
speziare
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Italian:
pimentare
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Korean:
양념하다
(yangnyeomhada)
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Polish:
doprawiać
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Polish:
doprawić
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Polish:
zaostrzać
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Polish:
zaostrzyć
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Portuguese:
condimentar
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Portuguese:
temperar
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Russian:
приправля́ть
(pripravljátʹ)
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Russian:
припра́вить
(priprávitʹ)
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Spanish:
saborizar
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Spanish:
especiar
— enhance the flavour of something using spice
-
Catalan:
animar
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
French:
pimenter
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
German:
aufpeppen
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Hungarian:
színesít
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Hungarian:
érdekessé tesz
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Hungarian:
feldob
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Italian:
ravvivare
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Latin:
faciō dēlectābilior
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Polish:
podkręcać
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Polish:
podkręcić
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Polish:
uatrakcyjniać
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Polish:
uatrakcyjnić
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Portuguese:
apimentar
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Russian:
разнообра́зить
(raznoobrázitʹ)
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Spanish:
animar
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
-
Vietnamese:
thêm mắm thêm muối
— make something more exotic, fun or extravagant
