snow
/snoʊ̯/ verb A2- Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have snow (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1) fall from the atmosphere. · It is snowing. It started to snow.
- Of a thing: to fall like snow.
- To cause (something) to fall like snow.
- To cover or scatter (a place or thing) with, or as if with, snow.
- To cause (hair) to turn white; also, to cause (someone) to have white hair.
- To convince or hoodwink (someone), especially by presenting confusing information or through flattery.
- To bluff (an opponent) in draw poker by playing a hand which has no value, or by refusing to draw any cards.
- To cause (someone) to be under the effect of a drug; to dope, to drug.
Plural snow · He/she/it snows · Past snowed · Past participle snowed · -ing form snowing
Verb forms
- Base form
- snow
- He/she/it
- snows
- Past
- snowed
- Past participle
- snowed
- -ing form
- snowing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
It had been a very mild December and people had looked forward to a green Christmas; but just enough snow fell softly in the night to transfigure Avonlea.
She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.
Anne reveled in the drive to the hall, slipping along over the satin-smooth roads with the snow crisping under the runners.
The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.
Other matches
- snow The partly frozen, crystalline state of water t... A1
- snow A square-rigged sailing vessel similar to a bri... C2
- snow Done because the alternate outcome is very unli... C2
- snow down to fall from the sky, as snow
- snow in To prevent from moving
- snow out To cover with snow.
- snow over Synonym of snow in.
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