ice over/up
phrasal verb
iced over/up; icing over/up; ices over/up
: to become covered with ice
The freezing rain caused the roads to ice over.
As the weather grew colder, the pond iced over.
The wings of the plane iced up during the storm.
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With a 50-degree high just a week or so earlier, the usually abundant ice up Provo Canyon was far from in.
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Maya Silver, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2025
Grace bent to shovel another square step in the endless ice up Karstens Ridge.
—Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
Dangerous amounts of ice up to 0.30 inches accumulated in parts of Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The cold side of the winter storms dropped snow and ice over a vast stretch of the central and eastern US.
—Stephanie Elam, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
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Maya Silver, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2025
Grace bent to shovel another square step in the endless ice up Karstens Ridge.
—Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2025
Dangerous amounts of ice up to 0.30 inches accumulated in parts of Pennsylvania, western Maryland and West Virginia.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
The cold side of the winter storms dropped snow and ice over a vast stretch of the central and eastern US.
—Stephanie Elam, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
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“Ice over/up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20over%2Fup. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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