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- noun Plural form of
frostbite .
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Examples
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The snow will be 100% real, we are told, meaning you can build real snow men, have real snow ball fights, make real snow angels and perhaps even get real frostbites.
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The snow will be 100% real, we are told, meaning you can build real snow men, have real snow ball fights, make real snow angels and perhaps even get real frostbites.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Much better here in Cleveland — with sleet, wind and frostbites.
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Who will have less food, winter clothings and so on, to handle the situation, at least until help arrive to save them from terrible frostbites, starvation, and death from hypothermia?
Election 2005: Cincinnati Homeland Security Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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A concerned Scott noted that he seemed very run down, with badly blistered fingers and frostbites.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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'Were I even to be dying from hunger,' he said, 'or perishing from frostbites, and so much as a thousand taels were offered me for each single fan, I wouldn't part with them.'
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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European conductor; and the proportion of those who escaped without frostbites was small.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various
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Although frostbites were frequent during the winter months, immediate attention to the restoration of circulation prevented the occurrence of after-effects, so that no one suffered the loss of any more tissue than the superficial epithelium.
The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920
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Curiously enough Campbell's men sustained far more frostbites than we at
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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February 4 crocked him up a good deal, and he suffered from facial frostbites.
South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918
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