hoarfrost Meaning of "hoarfrost"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

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Usage(s):

  1. Heavy hoarfrost formed each night; and in the morning the dead in the streets glittered.
  2. All of them see white patches at the planet's poles, which they accept as thin layers of ice or hoarfrost.
  3. Suddenly they wake up one morning to find sunlight sparkling off the hoarfrost and a silvery net of ice crystals on the puddles in the driveway.
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