Verb
To melt; to dissolve or thaw.
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The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.
As doth this clay grow hard, and as this wax Discandies at the one and the same fire , — So Daphnis by our love.
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At 9:37 on a Friday evening , she let the present melt, discandy, and, by insensible chromatic yieldings, give way to the past.
Until some meaning tongue discandy and dissolve, its new vogue hidden face down beneath the bed.
In sum, this was an arena where rigid role definitions discandied, on stage and off, reflecting—and stirring—the anxiety of an age when social mobility reared up from an emerging market economy.
If Freud's reading here — his progress on the "royal road to ... the unconscious" — is halted, and he finds himself unable to advance further along the way, this point of blockage is at the same time a point of branching -out or divergence: a point from which, says Freud, the thoughts of the dream discandy and disperse unreachably "in every direction into the intricate network of our world of thought" .
The Great Compromise of 1850, which was negotiated through Congress by Stephen Douglas, would discandy, revealing deepening sectional divisions over slavery that were splitting the Whigs and threatening to break up the Democrats.
To take or remove candy from.
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Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.
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Proust's memory of a sweet crumb leads to the redemption of time; Gass's history as the history of things leads to the decay of a discandied world. Kohler presents a tour de force of memory in an account of a childhood candy shop; but, whatever beauty follows is contaminated by his anti-Semitism toward the store's owners.
Or the broken deals. Proposing to exchange my toys for shares of the Halloween spoils he hoarded, I would discandy him first, swallow hard, then renege.