Cryptic crossword clue
Sweets lose vitality in containers 7

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word CANDIES

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What does CANDIES mean?

CANDIES noun
  1. Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.
  2. A piece of confectionery of this kind.
  3. (slang, chiefly US) crack cocaine.
CANDIES verb
  1. To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.
  2. To have sugar crystals form in or on.
  3. To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.
CANDIES noun
  1. A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

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