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frost heavings

frost heavings is the plural of frost heaving.

Meaning of frost heaving

Noun

frost heaving (usually uncountable, plural frost heavings)

  1. (usually) An upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil.

Questions about frost heavings

What is frost heavings the plural of?
Frost heavings is the plural of frost heaving.

Words near frost heavings in the dictionary

  1. frost grape
  2. frost grapes
  3. frost heave
  4. frost heaves
  5. frost heaving
  6. frost heavings
  7. frost hollow
  8. frost hollows
  9. frost lamp
  10. frost lamps
  11. frost line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frost heavings (page history and authors); frost heaving (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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