n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1. (in full sugar-candy) sugar crystallized by repeated boiling and slow evaporation.
2 US sweets; a sweet.
--v.tr. (-ies, -ied) (usu. as candied adj.) preserve by coating and impregnating with a sugar syrup (candied fruit).
Etymology: F sucre candi candied sugar f. Arab. kand sugar