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ICE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window
Example:
When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane
Synonyms:
frost over; ice over; ice up
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Hypernyms (to "ice up" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
"Ice up" entails doing...:
freeze (be very cold, below the freezing point)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
It is ----ing
