glaciate

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verb

To cover with ice or a glacier.

OriginLatin glaciātus →
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Meanings

verbglaciate (third-person singular simple present glaciates, present participle glaciating, simple past and past participle glaciated)

present singular third person glaciates · participle present glaciating · participle past glaciated · past glaciated

  1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
  2. To erode with a glacier.

    The nivated and glaciated areas shared the same snowfall and the same climatic conditions […]

    1900, Annual Reports of the Department of the Interior, United States: Department of the Interior, page 188
    1 more example

    At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.

    1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217
  3. To freeze.

Origin

  1. Latinglaciātus
  2. Englishglaciate

Borrowed from Latin glaciātus, perfect passive participle of glaciō (“to freeze”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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Translations

Bulgarian заледявам
  • заледявам (zaledjavam)To cover with ice

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

caligate
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Chicago

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

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