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 or encrusted with sugar
  • adjective preserved in sugar or syrup by baking till it becomes translucent

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

  • During fiestas, other dishes are consumed such as squash and pumpkin candied with piloncillo.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

  • During fiestas, other dishes are consumed such as squash and pumpkin candied with piloncillo.

    The Meseta Purepecha 2008

  • We ate delicious goat cheese wrapped in candied beets and toasted each other repeatedly.

    December « 2006 « martinis & mantras 2006

  • We ate delicious goat cheese wrapped in candied beets and toasted each other repeatedly.

    Morning After « martinis & mantras 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Wil - I think it might be called candied peel in the US?

    November recipe: Christmas mincemeat Carla 2006

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