glacifying

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
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