snow in

present singular third person snows in · participle present snowing in · participle past snowed in · past snowed in

1. passivetransitiveusuallyTo prevent from moving (from a building, in a city, etc) due to a large snowfall.

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   Engines with heavy snow ploughs are ordered to raise steam to a state of readiness, and freight trains may be cancelled or permissive loadings halved. This latter feature is of vital importance when it is borne in mind that trains are often snowed in through coming to rest between stations because of loss of tractive power.

   1960 January 28, M. Harbottle, “Maintaining Services after Heavy Snowfalls”, in Railway Magazine, page 10

   Synonyms: snow over, snow up