Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Permeated, covered, encrusted, or cooked with sugar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preserved with sugar, or incrusted with it; covered with crystals of sugar, or with matter resembling it: as, candied raisins.
- Wholly or partly crystallized or congealed: as, candied honey.
- Figuratively, honeyed; flattering; glozing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance.
- adjective Converted wholly or partially into sugar or candy; as
candied sirup. - adjective Conted or more or less with sugar
- adjective Figuratively; Honeyed; sweet; flattering.
- adjective Covered or incrusted with that which resembles sugar or candy.
- adjective smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
candy . - adjective
coated orencrusted with sugar - adjective
preserved insugar orsyrup bybaking till it becomestranslucent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used especially of fruits) preserved by coating with or allowing to absorb sugar
- adjective encrusted with sugar or syrup
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Examples
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During fiestas, other dishes are consumed such as squash and pumpkin candied with piloncillo.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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During fiestas, other dishes are consumed such as squash and pumpkin candied with piloncillo.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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We ate delicious goat cheese wrapped in candied beets and toasted each other repeatedly.
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We ate delicious goat cheese wrapped in candied beets and toasted each other repeatedly.
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If I hadn't known better, I would have thought it was "candied" - drizzled in honey or carmelized with brown sugar.
On Eating Apples 2009
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Unlike other citrus, the pith is not bitter and it's most popular culinary use is to be candied, which is exactly what I'll be doing.
Weekend Herb Blogging #87 Haalo 2007
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Unlike other citrus, the pith is not bitter and it's most popular culinary use is to be candied, which is exactly what I'll be doing.
Archive 2007-06-01 Haalo 2007
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You may know that crystallized ginger, also known as candied ginger, consists of strips of ginger root cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar.
Gingered Lemon Bars Pat 2006
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You may know that crystallized ginger, also known as candied ginger, consists of strips of ginger root cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar.
Archive 2006-05-01 Pat 2006
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Wil - I think it might be called candied peel in the US?
November recipe: Christmas mincemeat Carla 2006
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