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    ICE UP

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     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a windowplay

    Example:

    When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane

    Synonyms:

    frost over; ice over; ice up

    Classified under:

    Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

    Hypernyms (to "ice up" is one way to...):

    change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

    "Ice up" entails doing...:

    freeze (be very cold, below the freezing point)

    Sentence frames:

    Something ----s
    It is ----ing

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