spice
verb/spaɪs/
/spaɪs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they spice | /spaɪs/ /spaɪs/ |
| he / she / it spices | /ˈspaɪsɪz/ /ˈspaɪsɪz/ |
| past simple spiced | /spaɪst/ /spaɪst/ |
| past participle spiced | /spaɪst/ /spaɪst/ |
| -ing form spicing | /ˈspaɪsɪŋ/ /ˈspaɪsɪŋ/ |
- spice something (up) (with something) to add spice to food in order to give it more taste
- highly spiced dishes
Extra Examples- I don't really like highly spiced food.
- Their bread is spiced with cinnamon.
- a dish of lightly spiced rice
Oxford Collocations Dictionarypreposition- with
- heavily spiced
- highly spiced
- lightly spiced
- …
- spice something (up) (with something) to add interest or excitement to something
- He exaggerated the details to spice up the story.
- Her conversation is always spiced with humour.
Word OriginMiddle English: shortening of Old French espice, from Latin species ‘sort, kind’, in late Latin ‘wares’.
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