Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
to become covered with frost:
to coat with icing:
to anger or annoy:
Deutsch
to coat with icing:

Examples

66 sentences

  1. It frosted last night.

    ruПрошлой ночью были заморозки. — marafon

    deLetzte Nacht gab es Frost. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. Did you frost your hair?

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  3. There is frost on the grass.

    ruНа траве изморозь. — afyodor

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Meaning

6 senses

  1. (intransitive)To become covered with frost.

    обледене́тьobledenétʹ

  2. (transitive)To cover with frost.

    cover with frost

  3. (transitive)To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

    glasieren

    оледени́тьoledenítʹ, заледени́тьzaledenítʹ

More meanings 3

  1. (informal, transitive)To anger or annoy.

    I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.

    вымора́живатьvymoráživatʹ, вы́морозитьvýmorozitʹ

  2. (transitive)To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

  3. (transitive)To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.

Origin

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”),

From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).

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Forms

frosts, frosting, frosted, frosted

regular · Lesson

Base formfrost · to frost
3rd person singularfrosts
Present participlefrosting
Past simplefrosted
Past participlefrosted

Tenses

frost · frosted · will frost · have frosted

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyfrost
he, she, itfrosts

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave frosted
he, she, ithas frosted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill frost

Past simpleLesson

all personsfrosted

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • decorate with frosting:ice

Word family

2 related words
Relatedfrosting
Derivedfroster

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
frontalfrontierB2frontlinefrostbitefrostyC1froth

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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