Snow (Verb)
Meaning 1
Fall as snow; "It was snowing all night".
Classification
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering.
Examples
- It snowed gently through the night, covering everything in a thick layer of white.
- Large flakes began to snow as we stepped off the train.
- The sky grew dark and it started to snow in thick, heavy clumps.
- As we walked home, it started to snow and the world quickly became magical.
- By the time we got to the cabin, it was snowing heavily, the big flakes obscuring our vision.
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Meaning 2
Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- The salesman tried to snow the potential buyer by exaggerating the car's features and qualifications.
- She snowed her friends by telling them she was running a marathon for charity, but in reality, she was doing it for the sake of social media fame.
- The online scammer snowed the unsuspecting investor by creating a fake successful portfolio.
- He snowed the government agent by making it seem like he was a retired spy, rather than an actual international thief.
- The advertising team attempted to snow the public by pretending that the low-quality TV was a high-end model.