Ice Up (Verb)
Meaning
Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window; "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane".
Classification
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering.
Examples
- The water in the birdbath iced up after several days of freezing temperatures.
- By the morning, the windshield had iced up and I had to scrape it before driving to work.
- If the surface of the lake iced up completely, they would hold the annual winter festival on it.
- During the storm, the car's engine iced up and it took hours to get it running again.
- The airplane got caught in the freezing air currents and the wings iced up, cutting power to the engines.