ice-up

[ ahys-uhp ]

noun

1. freeze ( def 36 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice-up¹

First recorded in 1965–70; noun use of verb phrase ice up

Example Sentences

Most noticeable were "hedges" of ice up to six feet in height on either side of the crevasses which ran southward.

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This was dragged under the ice up into the house, where it afforded a meal of canned green bark.

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It must be in perfection, and should be on ice up to the moment of serving, and must tempt the eye as well as the palate.

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At Edgewood it pushed colossal blocks of ice up the banks into the roadway, piling them end upon end ten feet in air.

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I want to get on to that ice up there if I can, and maybe look over on to the other side of the mountains.

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Related Words

• chill
• ice
• refrigerate