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snowed in

snowed in adjective: unable to exit a place or location due to excessive snow. Also the simple past and past participle of snow in.

Adjective

snowed in (not comparable)

  1. Unable to exit a place or location due to excessive snow.
    • Three passenger and two goods trains were snowed in here on December 4, 1882, and the "South Yorkshireman" suffered the same fate in February, 1958.1959 May, Yorkshireman, “The Huddersfield-Penistone line and its branches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 253

Also used as

snowed in is also the simple past and past participle of snow in.

Synonyms of snowed in

Questions about snowed in

What does snowed in mean?
Snowed in means unable to exit a place or location due to excessive snow.
What part of speech is snowed in?
Snowed in is an adjective.

Words near snowed in in the dictionary

  1. snowdropping
  2. snowdrops
  3. Snowe
  4. snowed
  5. snowed down
  6. snowed in
  7. snowed out
  8. snowed over
  9. snowed under
  10. snowed up
  11. snower

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