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 event affected every glaciated region of the state except the Brooks Range.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
But neither have been hit harder than Pakistan's mountainous north, home to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one of the most glaciated areas in the region.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
“It’s one of the few places in the Lower 48 where you can see glaciated terrain within half an hour of a trailhead. There’s no place like it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 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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