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icing up

icing up is the present participle and gerund of ice up.

Meaning of ice up

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

Questions about icing up

What is icing up the present participle and gerund of?
Icing up is the present participle and gerund of ice up.

Words near icing up in the dictionary

  1. icing on the cake
  2. icing out
  3. icing over
  4. icing sugar
  5. icing sugars
  6. icing up
  7. icinged
  8. icinglike
  9. icings
  10. icings on the cake
  11. icings on the cakes

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