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snowed Definition


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snow
noun
    1. Precipitation in the form of aggregations of ice crystals falling to the ground in soft white flakes, or lying on the ground as a soft white mass.
    2. A fall of this.
      Example: There's been a lot of snow this year
    3. Any similar substance, such as carbonic acid snow which is frozen carbon dioxide.
    4. colloq
      A flickering speckled background on a TV or radar screen, caused by interference or a poor signal.
    5. slang
      Cocaine.
verb
    intr
    snowed, snowing
    1. Said of snow: to fall.
Idiom: be snowed under
    Be overwhelmed with work, etc.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon snaw.

Phrasal Verb: snow someone in or up
    To isolate or block them with snow.
      Example: We were snowed in for a week


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