- Sleeted
- Sleet Sleet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sleeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sleeting}.] To snow or hail with a mixture of rain. [1913 Webster]
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Sleeted
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sleeted — slɪËt n. partly frozen rain, mixture of snow and rain v. fall in the form of freezing rain, fall as sleet … English contemporary dictionary
sleet — I UK [sliːt] / US [slɪt] noun [uncountable] a mixture of snow and rain II UK [sliːt] / US [slɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms sleet : present tense I/you/we/they sleet he/she/it sleets present participle sleeting past tense sleeted past… … English dictionary
Sleet — Sleet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sleeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sleeting}.] To snow or hail with a mixture of rain. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sleeting — Sleet Sleet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sleeted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sleeting}.] To snow or hail with a mixture of rain. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
icy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. frosty, cold. Ant., steamy, hot. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Covered with ice] Syn. frozen over, iced, glaring, freezing, glacial, frostbound, glassy, sleeted, frosted, frosty, smooth as glass; see… … English dictionary for students
sleet — (n.) c.1300, slete, either from an unrecorded Old English word or via M.H.G. sloz, M.L.G. sloten (pl.) hail, from P.Gmc. *slautjan (Cf. dial. Norw. slutr, Dan. slud, Swed. sloud sleet ), from root *slaut . The verb is attested from early 14c.… … Etymology dictionary
icy — [adj1] frozen; slippery when frozen antarctic, arctic, biting, bitter, chill, chilled to the bone*, chilling, chilly, cold, freezing, frigid, frostbound, frosty, frozen over, gelid, glacial, glaring, iced, polar, raw, refrigerated, rimy,… … New thesaurus
