Synonyms of the word hoarfrost


HOARFROSTFROST - HOAR - ICE - RIME

hoarfrost

  • n. Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed…

frost

  • n. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process…
  • n. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
  • n. (figuratively) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
  • v. To get covered with frost.
  • v. To coat something (e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  • v. To anger or annoy.

hoar

  • n. A white or greyish-white colour.
  • n. Hoariness; antiquity.
  • adj. Of a white or greyish-white colour.
  • adj. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
  • adj. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

ice

  • n. (uncountable) Water in frozen (solid) form.
  • n. (uncountable) Covering made of frozen water on a river or other water basin in cold season.
  • n. (uncountable, physics, astronomy) Any frozen volatile chemical, such as ammonia or carbon dioxide.
  • n. (uncountable, astronomy) Any volatile chemical, such as water, ammonia, or carbon dioxide, not necessarily…
  • n. (countable) A frozen dessert made of fruit juice, water and sugar.
  • n. (uncountable) Any substance having the appearance of ice.
  • n. (uncountable, slang) One or more diamonds.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, drugs) Crystal form of amphetamine-based drugs.
  • n. (uncountable, ice hockey) The area where a game of ice hockey is played.
  • v. To cool with ice, as a beverage.
  • v. To become ice, to freeze.
  • v. (slang) To murder.
  • v. To cover with icing (frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg); to frost; as cakes, tarts, etc.
  • v. (ice hockey) To put out a team for a match.
  • v. (ice hockey) To shoot the puck the length of the playing surface, causing a stoppage in play called icing.

rime

  • n. (meteorology, uncountable) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold…
  • n. (meteorology, uncountable) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
  • n. (uncountable) A film or slimy coating.
  • v. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  • n. (obsolete or dialectal) Number.
  • n. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
  • n. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
  • v. Obsolete form of rhyme.
  • n. A step of a ladder; a rung.
  • n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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