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icebound

icebound adjective: completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.

Adjective

icebound

  1. Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
    • KGB had always been on the lookout for hard facts, but then reported those facts to people besotted with a dream, who then bent the truth in the service of that dream. When the truth had finally broken through, the dream had suddenly evaporated like a cloud of steam in a high wind, and reality had...2001, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon

Origin of icebound

From ice + bound.

Questions about icebound

What does icebound mean?
Icebound means completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
What part of speech is icebound?
Icebound is an adjective.

Words near icebound in the dictionary

  1. iceboated
  2. iceboater
  3. iceboaters
  4. iceboating
  5. iceboats
  6. icebound
  7. icebow
  8. icebows
  9. icebox
  10. icebox cake
  11. icebox cakes

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