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- [frawst, frost]
- /frɔst, frɒst/
- /frɒst/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [frawst, frost]
- /frɔst, frɒst/
Definitions of frost word
- noun frost Robert (Lee) 1874–1963, U.S. poet. 1
- verb with object frost to cover with frost. 1
- verb with object frost to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.). 1
- verb with object frost to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.). 1
- verb with object frost to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights. 1
- verb with object frost to kill or injure by frost: a freezing rain that badly frosted the tomato plants. 1
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Origin of frost
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English, Old English frost, forst; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German, Old Norse frost; akin to freeze
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Frost
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
frost popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
frost usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for frost
noun frost
- rime — identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
- drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- ice — the solid form of water, produced by freezing; frozen water.
- freeze — to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
- blight — You can refer to something as a blight when it causes great difficulties, and damages or spoils other things.
verb frost
- anesthetized — to render physically insensible, as by an anesthetic.
- anaesthetise — anesthetize.
- anesthetize — to cause anesthesia in; give an anesthetic to
- grizzle — gray; grayish; devoid of hue.
Antonyms for frost
noun frost
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- heat — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
- warmth — the quality or state of being warm; moderate or gentle heat.
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