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candy
Part of speech: NounA confection of sugar, combined with flavoring or coloring substances; any sweetmeat made of, or coated with, sugar or molasses.
Part of speech: VerbTo make into sugar; to preserve in sugar.
Part of speech: Past tense Part of speech: Past participle Part of speech: ParticipleTo become coated with sugar; to become sugar.
Usage examples "candy":- In leaving a box of candy, saved for him from the Christmas tree, was given him. - "The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him", Paul Leicester Ford.
- Boxes of candy became so ordinary that she fairly pleaded with her friends when they came to visit her to take them back to the houseboat. - "Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid", Amy D. V. Chalmers.
- " It's our first school tree," she cried; " and here I'll be the only girl that won't have her name called, except for an old orange or a bag of candy." - "The Biography of a Prairie Girl", Eleanor Gates.