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ICE-COLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ice-cold mean? 

ICE-COLD (adjective)
  The adjective ICE-COLD has 1 sense:

1. as cold as iceplay

  Familiarity information: ICE-COLD used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ICE-COLD (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

As cold as ice

Similar:

cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)


 Context examples 


But there was something in the ice-cold reasoning of Holmes which made it impossible to shrink from any adventure which he might recommend.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It will be a bad lookout for the Count if the edge of that "Kukri" ever touches his throat, driven by that stern, ice-cold hand!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That last spring, which he hoped would have brought the fight to a bloody end, carried him clear of the edge, and he found himself in an instant eight feet deep in the ice-cold stream.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I laid her down—for I raised her and supported her on my arm while she drank—I covered her ice-cold and clammy hand with mine: the feeble fingers shrank from my touch—the glazing eyes shunned my gaze.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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