Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely cold; frosty.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Frozen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Frostily.
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- adjective archaic Extremely cold;
frozen - verb rare Simple past of
freeze .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective very cold
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you George Soros Al-Qaeda loving loons were in charge I would fear frore my nation and party.
Think Progress » Anti-Muslim Congressman Has ‘No Intention Of Apologizing’ 2006
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A thousand visages Then mark'd I, which the keen and eager cold Had shaped into a doggish grin, whence creeps A shivering horror oter me, at the thought Of those frore shallows.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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Here the “parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire”:
COSMIC VOYAGES MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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High and clear through the frore fair night, the level moonbeams splintering in the wood, the scarce glints of stars in the shadowy roof of branches, these sacred anthems rose, -- rose as a hope from despair, as some snowy spray of flower-bells from blackest mould.
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Or some frore [14] Caspian reed-bed, southward bound
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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Or some frore [177-8] Caspian reed bed, southward bound
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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April air came up sweet and frore from the watermeadows of the Cherwell close at hand.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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The time was early August; but nevertheless there was a tang of frost in the air and the river seemed to flow not water but a thick frore fog.
The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927
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Burns frore, and cold performs th effect of fire.
Quotations 1919
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Burns frore, and cold performs th effect of fire.
Quotations 1919
brtom commented on the word frore
"God, how I hate the names / of the body's chemicals and anatomy, / the frore and glum department / of its parts ..." Wendell Berry, "Sabbaths 2005, XIV" in Leavings
October 3, 2009
sionnach commented on the word frore
Here pus, pus, pus!
October 4, 2009