glacify

Verb

glacify (third-person singular simple present glacifies, present participle glacifying, simple past and past participle glacified)

1. (intransitive) To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.
   • "Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow to glacify," said the Traveller; " but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep us from sleeping in Italy to-night," he continued reassuringly.1884 February, Frederic Courtland Penfield, “Over the Ortler”, in Outing and The Wheelman, volume 3, number 5, page 349
   • Ishii's staff calculated the exact moment at which the human body froze to a lethal level of immobility and its flesh began to glacify.2002, Stephen Barber, Annihilation Zones: Far East Atrocities of the 20th Century, page 30
2. (transitive) To cause to turn into ice.
   • We may remark here that perfectly dry snow cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow by the sun .1887, Joyce Emmerson Muddock, The J.E.M." Guide to Switzerland
   • On those heights the outposts would lie shivering in the trenches until they felt as if they were turned throughout to ice, and could note what happened only automatically — note the falling of an avalanche, a distant rifle-shot, the overhead passage of a scouting aeroplane, occurrences invariably...1923, Ivan Nazhivin, Rasputin - Volume 2, page 391