Desugar

verb, slang

verb, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Verb

1
To remove sugar from. transitive
2
To remove syntactic sugar from. informal, transitive
"The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array."

"The indexing operation arr[i] desugars to a method call that borrows the entire array."

From de- + sugar.