What is "refreeze"

Usage examples of "refreeze".

A glance showed that in the subarctic night air the water which had been sucking at the port bow runner was already refreezing, the ice sheet re-forming around the duralloy.

That done, I dug a small channel around the edge so that whatever did start to melt would run down the sides and refreeze there.

Haramis bent quickly to grasp whatever had been freed before it could refreeze into the puddle on the cave floor.

The oceans will refreeze, the temperature will drop permanently back below freezing, and the Tran will once more be forced to cower in their caves and feudal castles, reduced to devoting their racial energies just to surviving.

The snow fell in flurries of heavy wet flakes, melting slightly during the day, to refreeze at night, making a thin crust of ice.

We could melt ice and let it refreeze to form icepaths as we do here in the city.

Soon it would refreeze, erasing all traces that anyone had ever been here.

In the summer, so Ive heard, its so quiet you can hear the melt-off trickle down into the shadowy blue depths of the broken ice to refreeze again once out of the baleful glare of the never-setting summer sun.

These layers glistened, slick and icy, melted and refrozen several times by the spring sun.

As near as he could tell so was its portside counterpart, though it was buried two-thirds of the way into the refrozen ice.

He had bivouacked in the lee of a huge rock, halfway up an ice field, and spent a cold, restless night among the cracks and booms of the refreezing ice.

The surfaces themselves were pitted and rough from melting and refreezing unevenly over the years, and a few small tenacious plants had actually taken root on the ice.

The dying bonfire flickered palely in the gray light, and the snow that had melted around it was refreezing in icy puddles.

He dropped to his hands and knees and began to crawl about, peering into footprints which had melted to the size of dragon prints earlier that day and which were now refreezing, hard and blue and shiny.

Ceremonial Inquisitor also was reft speechless, while the ranked candles burned, the white beeswax run liquid and refrozen in grotesque, clumped driblets.