Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ice up

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.98 in modern English

Syllables: ice up
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To become covered or clogged with ice.

Intransitive verb

verb

To coat with ice; to cause to become covered or clogged with ice.

Transitive verb

verb

To put ice in or on something, especially a beverage or on an injured body part.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The airplane stalled and crashed after its wings iced up."
"The wind is whipping across this stretch of the road icing it up."
"He hired, through his Coca-Cola connections, a cooler, iced it up, and filled it with a trial case of the stuff, and parked it in the downstairs hall of the Theta chapter house."
"[…], opened the freezer, broke the ice, shook a cocktail, drank it down, recalled my husband, mutilated him twice, fair is fair, what he deserves, wept an aria, made another drink, iced it up, held the sink, poured it down, heard it gurgle, guilt and grace, […]"
"By the end of the day, the ankle was worse, and we again iced it up for the evening."

Usage

Inflected Forms

ices up (present, singular) icing up (participle, present) iced up (participle, past) iced up (past)

Phrases

ice over

Frequently Paired Words

ice over

Synonyms

frost over ice over

Questions

What does ice up mean?: To become covered or clogged with ice.

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