ICE OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ice over mean? 

• ICE OVER (verb)
  The verb ICE OVER has 1 sense:

1. become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window

  Familiarity information: ICE OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ICE OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

frost over; ice over; ice up

Context example:

When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane

Hypernyms (to "ice over" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

"Ice over" entails doing...:

freeze (be very cold, below the freezing point)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It is ----ing

 Context examples 

He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)