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🧊 Cold skin damage 🧊 To freeze skin
to frostbite

to frostbite

4.1
To have skin and other body parts damaged from being outside in very cold weather
  • verb
  • /ˈfrɔːstˌbaɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sufrir congelación
  • The climber realized his fingers were starting to frostbite as the temperature dropped.

Examples

  • Doctors warned that exposed skin could frostbite within minutes in such extreme cold.

  • If you stay outside too long in the snow, your toes might frostbite quickly.

  • He frostbit his fingers while hiking in the snow.

  • If you stay out too long, you might frostbite your toes.

  • He was careful not to frostbite his toes while skiing in the icy conditions.

  • If you stay outside too long without proper protection, you could frostbite your skin.

  • She learned to wear thick gloves to avoid frostbite during winter hikes.

Antonyms

to warm
488 1.0

To make or become less cold

How Severe

frostbitten
  • Specialized
6 4.9
to frostbite
  • Specialized
4.1
to frostbiting
  • Specialized
6.1

Surface Forms

frostbite infinitive
frostbiting present participle
frostbites third person singular
frostbited past
frostbitten past participle

Etymology

Frostbite as a verb comes from the same image: frost ('freezing cold') plus bite ('to bite'), like the cold is 'biting' you. So to frostbite is to have skin become damaged by the extreme cold.