candy
/ˈkæn.di/ verb C2- To cook in or coat with sugar syrup.
- To form into congelations or crystals, especially of sugar or syrup. · Fruits preserved in sugar candy over time.
- To become candy; to solidify into a candylike form or mass.
He/she/it candies · Past candied · Past participle candied · -ing form candying
Verb forms
- Base form
- candy
- He/she/it
- candies
- Past
- candied
- Past participle
- candied
- -ing form
- candying
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Green candy and green pop-corn were offered for sale, as well as green shoes, green hats, and green clothes of all sorts.
Once, when nobody was looking, Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm.
They looked like soft cotton candy.
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