snow up

verb

To prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.

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Meanings

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

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

  1. UKpassiveusuallyTo prevent (an event) from occurring due to snow.
  2. UKpassiveusuallyTo prevent (a person or thing) from leaving (a place) or using (a road or path) due to snow.

    Midway between these stations a plough with two engines, which had been keeping the line open throughout the Sunday, became completely snowed up, and another engine sent from the Arrochar direction with men to assist in digging out the plough itself was caught in a drift south of Glen Douglas.

    1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 177

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
snow in
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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