glaciate

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8

Definition of glaciate

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
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verb

  1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
  2. To erode with a glacier.
    “The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]”
    “At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.”
  3. To freeze.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glaciātus, perfect passive participle of glaciō (“to freeze”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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