snow out

verb

To cover with snow.

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Meanings

verbsnow out (third-person singular simple present snows out, present participle snowing out, simple past and past participle snowed out)

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

  1. idiomaticTo cover with snow.

    The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:

    1855, Charles Dickens, “The Guest”, in The Holly-Tree Inn
  2. passiveregionalTo prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.

    It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold

    2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans
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APA

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Chicago

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