befrost

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verb

To place frost upon; cover with frost

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Meanings

verbbefrost (third-person singular simple present befrosts, present participle befrosting, simple past and past participle befrosted)

present singular third person befrosts · participle present befrosting · participle past befrosted · past befrosted

  1. transitiveTo place frost upon; cover with frost

    […] The faint wind of your favour, that but for a moment blew, with grief has part befrosted the small sedge of the eaves.

    1934, Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, volumes 1-6, page 131
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    Yellow-ochre is the universal colour, and mealy granules befrost the caps (under 1′′ broad) and stems up to their friable, indefinite rings.

    2014, James H. Willis, Victorian Toadstools and Mushrooms

    She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping […]

    2015, Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, page 22

Origin

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) + frost.

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APA

befrost. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befrost

MLA

“befrost.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befrost. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “befrost,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/befrost.

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