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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The agency added that the Samuel Risley has the capability of breaking ice up to 3.3 feet thick at 3 knots. —

David Chiu, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025 Historic drilling project finds ice over 1.2 million years old Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. —

Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 13 Jan. 2025 Heavy mixed precipitation is expected from Friday morning to Saturday morning, including accumulating snow and ice up to one-half an inch and two-tenths of an inch, respectively. —

Anna Skinner, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025 As the storm moved east, around 60 million people across 30 states from the Plains to the mid-Atlantic were under weather alerts, with a developing low-pressure system threatening heavy snow and crippling ice over the next three days. —

NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for ice over/up