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🧊 To injure by cold 🥶 Extremely cold ❄️ Cold damage
to frostbiting

to frostbiting

6.1
Cause damage to skin or fingers in very cold weather
  • verb
  • /ˈfrɔstˌbaɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : congelar
  • Climbers must protect their skin to avoid frostbiting during high-altitude expeditions.

Examples

  • Without gloves, the cold air quickly started frostbiting her hands.

  • Don't stay out too long in the cold; you might frostbite your fingers!

  • The icy wind was frostbiting his cheeks as he walked through the snowstorm.

  • If you frostbite your toes, you need to warm them gradually.

  • When exposed to cold weather for too long, he realized that frostbiting could cause serious harm to his skin.

  • She felt her fingers growing numb as the freezing air began frostbiting them.

  • After standing in the snow, he noticed signs of frostbiting on his exposed skin.

How Damaging

to frostbiting
  • Specialized
6.1
to freeze
770 1.0

Surface Forms

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

Morphology

frostbiting = frostbite (transparent) = frost + bite + ing

The form is the present-participle of the verb 'frostbite' (frostbite + -ing); the derivation is regular and meaning is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Frostbiting as a verb comes from frost plus bite, where bite means 'to hurt with a sharp pain'. So to be frostbiting is for the cold to hurt your skin by freezing it.