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GLACIATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glaciate mean?
• GLACIATE (verb)
The verb GLACIATE has 2 senses:
1. cover with ice or snow or a glacier
2. become frozen and covered with glaciers
Familiarity information: GLACIATE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: glaciated
Past participle: glaciated
-ing form: glaciating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cover with ice or snow or a glacier
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
the entire area was glaciated
Hypernyms (to "glaciate" is one way to...):
cover; spread over (form a cover over)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
glaciation (the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice)
glaciation (the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action)
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Become frozen and covered with glaciers
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "glaciate" is one way to...):
freeze (change to ice)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
glaciation (the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice)
glaciation (the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action)
glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)
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