discandy means to melt; to dissolve or thaw. It carries an Arena rating of 1400, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, discandy ranks #532 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #1,356 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #2,796 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #3,039 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “discandy” is a great word
To melt or dissolve, especially from a solid or frozen state. Formed within English by derivation from the prefix dis- (expressing reversal or separation) and the verb candy (meaning to congeal or crystallize into a solid, sugar-like mass). Unlike "melt," a general term for transition from solid to liquid, or "dissolve," for solids mixing into a solvent, to discandy is the specific undoing of a candied, concreted state. It is the last of winter's hoarfrost vanishing from a branch under the first true sun, a sugar-sculpted swan collapsing into its own sweet puddle, and the quiet, irrevocable softening of a hardened heart—the gentle, terminal surrender of any fixed form to the inevitable liquidity of things.
verb
- To melt; to dissolve or thaw.e.g.“The hearts That spanieled me at heels, to whom I gave their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets.” — c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, a
- To take or remove candy from.e.g.“Beads of liquid fat in my tea discandy me with fear of ballooning out again.” — 1978, The Miscellany - Issues 85-90, page 10:
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