winterkill
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The mortality resulting from lethal wintry conditions among a human, animal, and/or vegetal population.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To kill by the conditions of winter, especially the effect of the cold, freezing.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "From these data it is evident that the frequent low temperatures may have winterkilled many bare fields of common alfalfa before the ice sheets occurred the latter part of February 1922"
- "The severe cold in conditions of only light snow protection is also reported to have winterkilled considerable areas of winter grains in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Yugoslavia"
- "It surely had winterkilled all the soft-grained wheat that had been planted."
- "Order new rose bushes to replace any that have winterkilled."
- "Some lakes may have winterkilled but anglers will find fish if they take some time to look for them"