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GLACIATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they glaciate
... he / she / it glaciates
Past simple: glaciated
-ing form: glaciating
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Cover with ice or snow or a glacier
Example:
the entire area was glaciated
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
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)
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