Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

icebound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

Syllables: ice-bound
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.

Example Sentences

"KGB had always been on the lookout for hard facts, but then reported those facts to people besotted with a dream, who then bent the truth in the service of that dream. When the truth had finally broken through, the dream had suddenly evaporated like a cloud of steam in a high wind, and reality had poured in like the flood following the breakup of an icebound river in springtime."

Etymology

From ice + bound.

Questions

What does icebound mean?: Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
Where does icebound come from?: From ice + bound.

How to pronounce icebound

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