savssat

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noun

The situation where animals become trapped in sea ice.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounsavssat (plural savssats)

plural savssats

  1. The situation where animals become trapped in sea ice.

Origin

  1. Eskimo-Aleut
  2. Englishsavssat

Borrowed from Eskimo-Aleut; cognate to modern Greenlandic sassat of which it may be an archaic form.

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APA

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

MLA

“savssat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/savssat. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “savssat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/savssat.

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