Meanings
adjectivesnowed in (not comparable)
- not comparableUnable to exit a place or location due to excessive snow.
Three passenger and two goods trains were snowed in here on December 4, 1882, and the "South Yorkshireman" suffered the same fate in February, 1958.
1959 May, Yorkshireman, “The Huddersfield-Penistone line and its branches”, in Trains Illustrated, page 253Synonyms: snowbound, snowed up, storm-stayed
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of snow in
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveUnable to exit a place or location due to excessive snow.
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Translations
Dutch ingesneeuwd
- ingesneeuwdunable to get out of a place due to snow
German eingeschneit
- eingeschneitunable to get out of a place due to snow
Swedish insnöad
- insnöadunable to get out of a place due to snow
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