frost

frost is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
2. intransitive verb. The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
3. intransitive verb. Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
4. intransitive verb. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
5. transitive verb. To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
6. transitive verb. To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
7. transitive verb. To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
8. noun. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
9. noun. weather cold enough to cause freezing

   Synonyms: freeze

10. noun. the formation of frost or ice on a surface

    Synonyms: icing

11. noun. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

    Synonyms: hoar, hoarfrost, rime

12. verb. damage by frost

    "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown"

13. verb. cover with frost

    "ice crystals frosted the glass"

14. verb. provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance

    "frost the glass"

    "she frosts her hair"

15. verb. decorate with frosting

    "frost a cake"

    Synonyms: ice

Synonyms

freeze, icing, hoar, hoarfrost, rime, ice

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in frost:

forts

Common word forms

frosts, frosted, froster, frosting, frostless

Words from these letters

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