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ice up

ice up verb: to become covered or clogged with ice.

Verb

ice up (third-person singular simple present ices up, present participle icing up, simple past and past participle iced up)

  1. (intransitive, usually) To become covered or clogged with ice.
    • The airplane stalled and crashed after its wings iced up.
  2. (transitive) To coat with ice; to cause to become covered or clogged with ice.
    • The wind is whipping across this stretch of the road icing it up.2015 June 17, Joan Hayward, Painer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, →OCLC
  3. (transitive) To put ice in or on something, especially a beverage or on an injured body part.
    • He hired, through his Coca-Cola connections, a cooler, iced it up, and filled it with a trial case of the stuff, and parked it in the downstairs hall of the Theta chapter house.1937, The Rattle of Theta Chi, Theta Chi Fraternity, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30
    • […], opened the freezer, broke the ice, shook a cocktail, drank it down, recalled my husband, mutilated him twice, fair is fair, what he deserves, wept an aria, made another drink, iced it up, held the sink, poured it down, heard it gurgle, guilt and grace, […]2011 March 17, Various, New Irish Short Stories (First Trilogy), Faber & Faber, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 183

Forms of ice up

third-person singular presentices up
present participleicing up
past participleiced up
pasticed up

Questions about ice up

What does ice up mean?
Ice up means to become covered or clogged with ice.
What part of speech is ice up?
Ice up is a verb.
What is the past tense of ice up?
The past tense of ice up is iced up.

Words near ice up in the dictionary

  1. ice tongues
  2. ice tray
  3. ice trays
  4. ice tsunami
  5. ice tsunamis
  6. ice up
  7. ice VI
  8. ice volcano
  9. ice volcanoes
  10. ice wagon
  11. ice wagons

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