ice burn

noun

Tissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.

Meanings

ice burn1

nounice burn (countable and uncountable, plural ice burns)

plural ice burns

  1. countableuncountableTissue damage caused by direct skin contact with a cold surface.

ice burn2

nounice burn (uncountable)
  1. Japanuncountablenon-native speakers' EnglishAn icy road.

    sliding near intersections and on ice burn

    2008, Takahiro Kato, “Editor's Note”, in PWRI Web Magazine, volume 3, Public Works Research Institute
    2 more examples

    In fact, some subjects reported that “ice burn sometimes slips, but basically, walking on ice burn feels no different than walking on an ordinary road.”

    2018, Ren Katsurada, Tatsuhito Hasegawa, “Estimation of Road Snow Accumulation Using Smartphones to Create Snow Cover Maps for Pedestrians”, in IEEE Region 10 International Conference TENCON, →DOI

    when the rover is driving on uneven ground, on ice burn with little friction, or when its wheels step pebbles on the ground

    2021, Hokuto Kurihara, Sota Shimizu, Rikuta Mazaki, Naoki Motoi, Roberto Oboe, Nobuyuki Hasebe, Tomoyuki Miyashita, “Development of Haptic Feedback Control Stick for Remote Control between Different Structures”, in 10.1109/ICM46511.2021.9385652, →DOI

Origin

ice burn · noun

  1. GermanEisbahn
  2. Englishice burn

Phono-semantic matching of Japanese アイスバーン (aisubān), from German Eisbahn (literally “ice road”).

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ice burn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice%20burn

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“ice burn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice%20burn. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ice burn,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ice%20burn.

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