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frost over

v. become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window; "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane" [syn: ice up, ice over]

Usage examples of "frost over".

He had hoped to get the unpleasant interview with Frost over before he saw the new man.

Silence handed Frost over to him, and then sat down suddenly as his legs gave out on him.

However ebullient Mike had been with Dan Frost over the Congden business, he had himself had misgivings about it.

Tumbled hair sparked like frost over wrists so slim that Emien could encircle them easily with the thumb and forefinger of one hand.

The few men in attendance were shapeless in thick garments, a rime of frost over the fabric covering their mouths.

Some of the smaller pools were just starting to frost over, and greasy plates of ice could be seen floating around their edges.

Around them the cold gripped the soil, threw streamers of frost over icy boulders, made even the dancing shadows things of menace.

Here, the air is dry and bitterly cold, making our lungs ache and our eyelashes and nostrils frost over.

He looked and saw that he was trapped in a great glass bubble-the bubble of his helmet, now beginning to frost over on the inside from the warmth of his breath.

I carried her in and injected her and got her wrapped and put her inside and closed up and charged the coils and watched the plate frost over.