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snows out

snows out is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 snows out

What is snows out the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Snows out is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snow out.

Words near snows out in the dictionary

  1. snowrut
  2. snowruts
  3. snows
  4. snows down
  5. snows in
  6. snows out
  7. snows over
  8. snows under
  9. snows up
  10. snowscape
  11. snowscapes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snows 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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