glaciate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to cover with ice or glaciers.
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to affect by glacial action.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to cover or become covered with glaciers or masses of ice
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(tr) to subject to the effects of glaciers, such as denudation and erosion
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of glaciate
1615–25; < Latin glaciātus (past participle of glaciāre to freeze), equivalent to glaci ( ēs ) ice + -ātus -ate 1
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Around him, candles burn in the frigid breeze and flowers glaciate at their stems.
From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026
The rugged, remote region was hours from any towns, and featured low-lying hills, steep alpine cliffsides, and "even glaciated terrain", he said.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
However, he emphasizes that the measurements cannot distinguish between methane from glaciated regions and methane from wetlands.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
The Pacific Coast beaches and sea stacks are distinct from the dense interior rainforests of moss and lichen, and neither afford clear views of the glaciated alpine peaks.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2023
That such a lush ecosystem could exist a half-million years into the Pleistocene suggests Greenland hadn’t yet fully glaciated, or the ecosystem arose during a warm interglacial period.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 6, 2022
The quake devastated 24,000 square miles of wilderness, much of it glaciated.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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