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
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
Those hoping to spend more time in the Coast Mountains can take lengthier, multiday treks through glaciated valleys, too.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 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 lower end of Kerm Land, the mountainous southernmost peninsula of the Karhide semi-continent, is, like the north, glaciated.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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