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snowed up

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

Meaning of snow up

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

Questions about snowed up

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

Words near snowed up in the dictionary

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

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