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snow up

snow up verb: to prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.

Verb

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

  1. (UK, passive, usually) To prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.
  2. (UK, passive, usually) To prevent (a person or thing) from leaving (a place) or using (a road or path) due to snow.
    • Midway between these stations a plough with two engines, which had been keeping the line open throughout the Sunday, became completely snowed up, and another engine sent from the Arrochar direction with men to assist in digging out the plough itself was caught in a drift south of Glen Douglas.1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177

Forms of snow up

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

Questions about snow up

What does snow up mean?
Snow up means to prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.
What part of speech is snow up?
Snow up is a verb.
What is the past tense of snow up?
The past tense of snow up is snowed up.

Words near snow up in the dictionary

  1. snow train
  2. snow trains
  3. snow tyre
  4. snow tyres
  5. snow under
  6. snow up
  7. snow water
  8. snow water equivalent
  9. snow water equivalents
  10. snow waters
  11. snow well

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