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caramelize

 verb
     
car‧a‧mel‧ize also caramelise British English
1 [intransitive] if sugar caramelizes, it becomes brown and hard when it is heated
2 [transitive] to cook food such as fruit or vegetables with sugar
—caramelized adjective:
caramelized onions
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