Meanings
- Completely surrounded by ice and therefore unable to move.
1 more example
KGB had always been on the lookout for hard facts, but then reported those facts to people besotted with a dream, who then bent the truth in the service of that dream. When the truth had finally broken through, the dream had suddenly evaporated like a cloud of steam in a high wind, and reality had poured in like the flood following the breakup of an icebound river in springtime.
2001, Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelocked in by ice
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Origin
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icebound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/icebound
“icebound.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/icebound. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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