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frostbitten

frostbitten

6 4.9
Skin or other parts that get damaged when they freeze in very cold weather
  • adjective
  • /ˈfrɔstˌbɪtən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : congelado
  • Hands and feet became frostbitten, and everything from the water in canteens to the water-cooled machine guns froze.
  • frostbitten fingers
  • frostbitten toes
  • frostbitten feet

It says Harry's ears, cheeks and penis got fro frostbitten.

Examples

  • I can't manage it, my fingers are frostbitten.

  • The hiker's fingers were frostbitten after he got lost in the snowstorm for two days.

  • And badly frostbitten from trying to help save others in the group.

  • When I was a soldier, my fingers were frostbitten.

  • Man: Homeless guy, his feet are frostbitten.

  • But many a hunter had returned cold, frostbitten, and disappointed.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Please, Sabrina, before my fingers get frostbitten.

  • He sat there in the blue-white light of evening until his hands were frostbitten and his clothing had frozen to the earth.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Loki, my boy... 'twas many moons ago I found you on that frostbitten battlefield.

  • When Father Perrault tumbled into the valley half frozen to death, one of his legs was so badly frostbitten, there being no doctor he was forced to amputate it himself.

Antonyms

7 1.8

Not hurt physically

How Damaged

gangrenous
  • Specialized
4 9.1
frostbitten
  • Specialized
6 4.9
injured
30 1.0
unharmed
44 2.1

Surface Forms

frostbitten positive

Morphology

frostbitten = frostbite (transparent) = frost + bite + en

Formed from the compound 'frostbite' (frost + bite) with the past-participle/adjectival suffix '-en', so the meaning 'affected by frost-induced injury' is directly derived.

Etymology

Frostbitten comes from frost ('frozen cold') and bite ('to bite'); think of the cold as if it 'bites' or 'nips' your skin. So frostbitten means skin or tissue that has been injured by freezing.