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candy

noun

1 candy

A rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts.

synonym: confect.

Roget 396: sweetness, dulcitude.    sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection, confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, ... show more

Dutch: snoep
Polish: cukierek

verb

1 candy

Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.

synonyms: glaze, sugarcoat.

Roget 321: be dense etc. adj.; become solid, render solid etc. adj.; solidify, solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, ... show more

Roget 396: be sweet etc. adj.. render sweet etc. adj.; sweeten; edulcorate; dulcorate, dulcify; candy; mull.   


Moby thesaurus: Jell-O, addictive drug, blancmange, cake, comfit, compote, concrete, condense, confection, confectionery, confiture, conserve, crystallize, dangerous drug, dope, drug, dulcify, edulcorate, frosting, gelatin ... show more.

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