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snowed out

snowed out is the simple past and past participle of snow out.

Meaning of snow out

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

Questions about snowed out

What is snowed out the simple past and past participle of?
Snowed out is the simple past and past participle of snow out.

Words near snowed out in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowed out (page history and authors); snow out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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