Meaning of glacify | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.
   intransitive
2. To cause to turn into ice.
   transitive

Examples

“"Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow⟳ to glacify," said the Traveller; " but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep⟳ us from sleeping in Italy to-night," he continued reassuringly.”

“Ishii's staff calculated the exact moment at which the human body froze to a lethal level of immobility and its flesh began to glacify.”

“If LCC increase⟳ the number⟳ of IN, the ice-particle concentrations will increase⟳ and ice-particle sizes will decrease; the cloud may glacify over a relatively narrow altitude range.”

“We may remark⟳ here that perfectly dry snow⟳ cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow⟳ by the sun .”

“On those heights the outposts would lie⟳ shivering in the trenches until they felt as if they were turned throughout to ice, and could note⟳ what happened only automatically — note⟳ the falling of an avalanche, a distant rifle-shot, the overhead passage of a scouting aeroplane, occurrences invariably followed once more by the absolute silence which brooded over the region amid a cold to glacify the very soul, to send⟳ a man out of his senses.”

“The ideals of sustainable growth, perpetual augmentation of living standards, and the continual improvement in the services of the Scandinavian welfare states were glacified by a new ice age, as economic rationalists took the helm in the face⟳ of economic collapse.”

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