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

frostbiting

7.2
Damage to body tissue or plants caused by freezing cold weather
  • noun
  • /ˈfrɔstˌbaɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : frostbite
  • Prolonged exposure to cold winds led to frostbiting of the hikers' fingers and toes.

Examples

  • The unexpected late freeze caused severe frostbiting of the orchard's young blossoms.

  • Farmers worry about frostbiting when temperatures drop suddenly in early spring.

  • He suffered from frostbiting on his fingers during the hike.

  • The frostbiting of the plants was evident after the cold snap.

  • The unexpected late freeze caused severe frostbiting of the orchard's young blossoms.

  • Farmers worry about frostbiting when temperatures drop suddenly in early spring.

  • The frostbiting of the plants was evident after the cold snap.

Synonyms

frostbite
vsfrostbiting
  • Specialized
35 4.4

Damage to skin and other body parts caused by very cold weather

is broader and covers tissue or plant damage rather than only skin injuries
cryopathy
vsfrostbiting
  • Specialized
9.9

Serious damage to body tissue from freezing that can cause tingling, blisters, or dead tissue

is the general process of tissue or plant damage from exposure to freezing
winterkill
vsfrostbiting
  • Specialized
8.8

The death of plants or animals caused by very cold winter weather

is the freezing damage process itself not only whole organism death

Antonyms

heating
23 1.0

The process of something becoming or being made warm

How Severe

gangrene
  • Specialized
16 8.7
frostbitten
  • Specialized
6 4.9
frostbiting
  • Specialized
7.2
frostbite
  • Specialized
35 4.4

Surface Forms

frostbiting singular
frostbitings plural

Morphology

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

The noun is built directly from the recognizable base word 'frostbite' with the productive suffix '-ing', so the process meaning is straightforward.

Etymology

Frostbiting as a noun comes from frost and bite, with bite meaning 'to cause sharp harm'. So frostbiting is the damage frost does to plants or skin when freezing weather harms them.