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snowproof

snowproof adjective: resistant to snow.

Adjective

snowproof (comparative more snowproof, superlative most snowproof)

  1. Resistant to snow.
    • ...that he looked quite like a gentleman bound on a shooting expedition, and that his friends had every reason to think he would now be snowproof.1847, James Hogg, Titan
    • Care should be taken to make windows rain- and snowproof, and to allow opening for ventilation without letting in rain during ordinary storms.1915, Archer Eben Knowlton, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

Verb

snowproof (third-person singular simple present snowproofs, present participle snowproofing, simple past and past participle snowproofed)

  1. (transitive) To make resistant to snow.

Forms of snowproof

Adjective
comparativemore snowproof
superlativemost snowproof
Verb
third-person singular presentsnowproofs
present participlesnowproofing
past participlesnowproofed
pastsnowproofed

Origin of snowproof

From snow + -proof.

Questions about snowproof

What does snowproof mean?
Snowproof means resistant to snow.
What part of speech is snowproof?
Snowproof can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near snowproof in the dictionary

  1. snowporch
  2. snowporches
  3. snowpowdered
  4. snowprint
  5. snowprints
  6. snowproof
  7. snowproofed
  8. snowproofing
  9. snowproofs
  10. snowrabbit
  11. snowrabbits

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