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 was an unusually mild winter, with so little snow that Anne and Diana could go to school nearly every day by way of the Birch Path.
His opened mail lay like a bank of stage snow on his crowded desk.
Just then a girl scuddled lightly around the corner, slipped on a patch of icy snow and fell plump upon the sidewalk.
Den he’s goin’ to shoot snow-birds in de Klondike.
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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