snowdrift
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈsnoʊˌdrɪft/
- UK
:
banco de nieve
- After the blizzard, we found a snowdrift piled high against the fence.
- deep snowdrifts
- huge snowdrift
- giant snowdrift
Examples
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What else can be done on a train isolated by a snowdrift?
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The cow had slowed to a walk far out among the lingering snowdrifts that etched the bases of the hills.
Fiction book (1990) -
The others quickly covered him with snow; a huge snowdrift rose above him at once.
Academic text (2007) -
His mother found that a snowdrift had formed in their bedroom.
Fiction book (1998) -
Well, he was in a snowdrift buried up to his neck, only his head sticking out, just looking around.
Fiction book (2001) -
Our car had slid off the country road into a snowdrift.
Fiction book (1999) -
In the morning, the old man and the boy searched through snowdrifts for wood.
Fiction book (1992) -
Highways are blocked by snowdrifts.
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His car lights reveal tire tracks in the snowdrifts on the highway.
Fiction book (1994) -
As the van pulls off, Melanie wades through a snowdrift toward me.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
8
2.0
A large pile of snow on the ground, often by a road
1
1.9
A pile of snow made by wind or plows
A pile of snow that forms naturally or when people shovel
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Snowdrift joins snow and drift, and drift originally meant 'to be pushed' by wind or water. So a snowdrift is snow 'pushed' into a high pile by the wind.