Social conflicts are the icing on the cake for demagogues.
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Icing
//ˈaɪsɪŋ//
Synonyms for "icing" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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13 entriesTranslations
53 translations across 29 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَغْطِيَة سُكَّر noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Bulgarian
3 entries- айсинг noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
- глазура noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- обледеняване noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
Catalan
2 entries- glaça noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- refús prohibit noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 糖衣 noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 糖霜 noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Czech
1 entries- zakázané uvolnění noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
Danish
1 entries- glasur noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Esperanto
1 entries- glaceo noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Finnish
4 entries- jäädyttäminen noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
- jäädytys noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
- kuorrute noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- kuorrutus noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
French
1 entries- glaçage noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
German
3 entries- Glasur noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- Vereisung noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
- Zuckerguss noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Greek
1 entries- γλάσο noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Hungarian
1 entries- cukormáz noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Italian
4 entries- brillantatura noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- ghiaccia noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- glassa noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- glassatura noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Japanese
1 entries- アイシング noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Kazakh
1 entries- зертас noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Korean
1 entries- 아이싱 noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Māori
1 entries- pani reka noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- glasur noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- glasur noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Eisinj noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Polish
3 entries- icing noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
- lukier noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- obladzanie noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
Portuguese
2 entries- glace noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- glacê noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Romanian
2 entries- acoperire cu gheață noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
- glazură (de zahăr) noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Russian
2 entries- глазу́рь noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- обледене́ние noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
Sicilian
4 entries- jelu noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- jilata noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- jilata noun (process of forming a layer of ice)
- ncillippata noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Slovak
1 entries- zakázané uvoľnenie noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
Spanish
3 entries- alcorza noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- glaseado noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- lustre noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
Swedish
2 entries- glasyr noun (sweet glaze used for baked goods)
- icing noun (minor violation of ice hockey rules)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Tom bought two chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing and gave one of them to Mary.
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That was just icing on the cake.
Source: tatoeba (3187495)
Tom likes patty cakes with pink icing and hundreds and thousands on top.
Source: tatoeba (4297033)
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