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Meaning of ice up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To become covered or clogged with ice.
    intransitive, usually
  2. To coat with ice; to cause to become covered or clogged with ice.
    transitive
  3. To put ice in or on something, especially a beverage or on an injured body part.
    transitive

Examples

“The airplane stalled and crashed after its wings iced up.”
“The wind is whipping across this stretch of the road icing it up.”
“He hired, through his Coca-Cola connections, a cooler, iced it up, and filled it with a trial case of the stuff, and parked it in the downstairs hall of the Theta chapter house.”
“[…], opened the freezer, broke the ice, shook a cocktail, drank it down, recalled my husband, mutilated him twice, fair is fair, what he deserves, wept an aria, made another drink, iced it up, held the sink, poured it down, heard it gurgle, guilt and grace, […]”
“By the end of the day, the ankle was worse, and we again iced it up for the evening.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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