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   syr·up

   /ˈsirəp/

   noun

   • 1. a thick sweet liquid made by dissolving sugar in boiling water, often used for preserving fruit.
   • ▪ a thick sweet liquid containing medicine or used as a drink: "cough syrup"
   • ▪ a thick sticky liquid derived from a sugar-rich plant, especially sugar cane, corn, and maple.
   • ▪ excessive sweetness or sentimentality of style or manner: "Mr. Gurney's poems are almost all of them syrup"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French sirop or medieval Latin siropus, from Arabic šarāb ‘beverage’; compare with sherbet and shrub2.

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