GLACIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glaciate mean? 

• GLACIATE (verb)
  The verb GLACIATE has 2 senses:

1. cover with ice or snow or a glacier

2. become frozen and covered with glaciers

  Familiarity information: GLACIATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLACIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glaciate    ... he / she / it glaciates   
Past simple: glaciated   
Past participle: glaciated   
-ing form: glaciating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cover with ice or snow or a glacier

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

the entire area was glaciated

Hypernyms (to "glaciate" is one way to...):

cover; spread over (form a cover over)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

glaciation (the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice)

glaciation (the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action)

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Become frozen and covered with glaciers

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "glaciate" is one way to...):

freeze (change to ice)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

glaciation (the process of covering the earth with glaciers or masses of ice)

glaciation (the condition of being covered with glaciers or masses of ice; the result of glacial action)

glacier (a slowly moving mass of ice)