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permafrozen

permafrozen adjective: permanently frozen.

Adjective

permafrozen (not comparable)

  1. permanently frozen
    • Piece of cake? her mind screeched. Piece of ten-million-year-old permafrozen glacier, maybe.2006, Terri Farley, Phantom Stallion #21, page 210
    • Pingos form by the penetration of unfrozen but saturated sands to the surface through a layer of permafrozen ground.2001, Graham Taylor, R.A. Eggleton, Regolith Geology and Geomorphology, page 239

Origin of permafrozen

From perma- + frozen.

Questions about permafrozen

What does permafrozen mean?
Permafrozen means permanently frozen.
What part of speech is permafrozen?
Permafrozen is an adjective.

Words near permafrozen in the dictionary

  1. permafrost
  2. permafrosted
  3. permafrosts
  4. permafrown
  5. permafrowns
  6. permafrozen
  7. permafuck
  8. permafucked
  9. permafucking
  10. permafucks
  11. permagrin

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