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.

Examples of ice over/up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lift the block of ice up to incorporate the two liquids, then serve. —Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Apr. 2024

However, while there's no magical number at which your pipes could ice up, it's generally accepted that a freeze risk is possible when the temperature drops to somewhere in the region of 20F. Though, of course, the location of the pipes and the amount of insulation around them will be a factor. —USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2024

The combination of rain, snow and heavy river ice over frozen soil could contribute to flooding in the area. —Edward Shaw, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2024

Historically, there are still four to five weeks left for winter storms to dump snow and ice over the area, even as the sun rises higher in the sky and average temperatures increase. —Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024

Lines start to blur: calmness may edge into detachment; coolheadedness might ice over. —Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2024

New England is bracing for heavy rain, flooding, high winds and then a quick freeze overnight from Friday into Saturday that could ice over roads and lead to dangerous driving conditions, according to local officials. —Jon Kamp, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022

Every two weeks for more than three decades, people like Brad Whickham have been rotating in and out hauling more than a thousand pounds of dry ice up the mountain, all to keep Grandpa tucked in for his eternal winter's nap. —Lee Cowan, CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024

Antarctic sea ice has reached a record low for the year, researchers say The findings suggest that ice over the region then remained largely stable over millions of years, despite intervening warm periods. —Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2023