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snow out

snow out verb: to cover with snow.

Verb

snow out (third-person singular simple present snows out, present participle snowing out, simple past and past participle snowed out)

  1. (idiomatic) To cover with snow.
    • The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:1855, Charles Dickens, “The Guest”, in The Holly-Tree Inn
  2. (passive, regional) To prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.
    • It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans

Forms of snow out

third-person singular presentsnows out
present participlesnowing out
past participlesnowed out
pastsnowed out

Questions about snow out

What does snow out mean?
Snow out means to cover with snow.
What part of speech is snow out?
Snow out is a verb.
What is the past tense of snow out?
The past tense of snow out is snowed out.

Words near snow out in the dictionary

  1. snow on the roof
  2. snow on the roof top
  3. snow on the rooftop
  4. snow orchid
  5. snow orchids
  6. snow out
  7. snow over
  8. snow panther
  9. snow panthers
  10. snow pants
  11. snow park

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