Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To become covered in ice, usually of a body of water.
WordNet
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, frost over]
Usage examples of "ice over".
I caught barely one word in ten of the committal and then it was all over: no meaningless rifle salutes, no empty blowing of bugles, just the service and the silence and the dark shapes of stumbling men hurriedly placing fragments of broken ice over the canvas-sheeted forms.
Freshly broken twigs, sap frozen around the break, hoofprints stamped in hoarfrost, and broken ice over melt ponds kept catching his eye.
Not on the tons and tons and tons of ice over your head, below your hands and knees, pressing in on your sides, pressing, pressing-.
He needed to pull that sheet of calculating ice over him so that he was nothing more than a machine.
And beyond that, a thin crust of ice over a deep pit gouged out in the night and covered over with a roof of filmilon fabric and water, the filmilon later dissolved from underneath with solvents that left a treacherous crust of ice above the acid-filled pit.
So when the eruptions began the lava and gases had melted the ice over the volcanoes, causing vast slippages overhead.
Their hands were soon covered with blood from the sharp and rugged ice over which they clambered, but still on they went.
Where there is a rock or a log rising near to the surface the ice over it is much thinner, and is frequently quite dissolved by this reflected heat.
Charon doesn't have the inconvenience of an atmosphere, or an overlay of nitrogen ice over the water.
It was a place of violent winds, for heavy, cold air poured off the ice over the exposed land, and she saw giant dust storms that persisted for days.
The ice over the reactor was supported by a particularly close-meshed framework, and it had held.
But over the next couple of days, spent in the village in an unhappy state of tension, an investigation into the cause of the fall revealed that the the whole mass of dry ice over them had sagged ever so slightly, cracking the layer of water ice and sending it down through the mesh.
A hundred meters farther on, the ice on the left closed in and met the ice over the rockface to the right, and that was it: dead end.
He stared in rank despair at the edge of the age-old ice over the tomb of Keef.