Glacify

Quick meaning: Glacify is a verb meaning (intransitive) To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.

Meaning

(intransitive) To become icy; to freeze into ice or ice crystals.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to turn into ice.

Example Sentences

Ishii's staff calculated the exact moment at which the human body froze to a lethal level of immobility and its flesh began to glacify.

If LCC increase the number of IN, the ice-particle concentrations will increase and ice-particle sizes will decrease; the cloud may glacify over a relatively narrow altitude range.

"Perhaps the boys were right in waiting for the snow to glacify," said the Traveller; " but we're in for it now, and nothing but bad luck will keep us from sleeping in Italy to-night," he continued reassuringly.

We may remark here that perfectly dry snow cannot be glacified, and that in the formation of glacier ice the water necessary for its production comes from the melting of the superficial layers of snow by the sun .

Word Forms

• glacifies
• glacifying
• glacified

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conglaciate, glacialize, frigify, freeze, deice, glaciate.

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