frost

🇺🇸 /frɔːst/ 🇬🇧 /frɒst/
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Tags TOP10000CEFR-B2
noun
R

Weather when it's cold enough for ice to form on surfaces.

The morning frost made the grass sparkle.

R

The thin white ice that forms on cold surfaces.

I scraped the frost off my car window.

verb
R

To become covered with a thin layer of ice.

The cold made the windows frost over.

R

To cover a cake with a sweet icing.

She will frost the cake with vanilla icing.

translation

n. Weather when it's cold enough for ice to form on surfaces.; The thin white ice that forms on cold surfaces.
v. To become covered with a thin layer of ice.; To cover a cake with a sweet icing.

Word Forms

Plural frosts
Progressive frosting
Past frosted
Perfect frosted
3rd Present frosts