1. Verb
The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
2. Verb
The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
3. Verb
Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
4. Verb
Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
5. Verb
To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
6. Verb
To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
7. Verb
To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
8. Noun
the formation of frost or ice on a surface
Vocabulary classified under Physics
9. Noun
ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Vocabulary classified under Physics
10. Noun
weather cold enough to cause freezing
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
11. Verb
damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"
Vocabulary classified under Nature and environment
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