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frost

Syllabification: (frost)
Pronunciation: /frôst/

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Definition of frost

noun

  • a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.
  • a period of cold weather when deposits of small white ice crystals form:when the hard frosts had set in
  • a chilling or dispiriting quality, especially one conveyed by a cold manner:there was a light frost of anger in Jack’s tone
  • [in singular] informal, chiefly British a failure.

verb

[with object]
  • cover (something) with or as if with small ice crystals; freeze:each windowpane was frosted along its edges
  • [no object] become covered with small ice crystals:a mustache that frosts up when he’s ice-climbing
  • decorate (a cake, cupcake, or other baked item) with icing.
  • tint hair strands to change the color of isolated strands.
  • injure (a plant) by freezing weather.
  • informal anger or annoy:such discrimination frosted her no end

Derivatives

frostless

adjective

Origin:

Old English frost, forst, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vorst and German Frost, also to freeze

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