Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Injury or destruction of skin and underlying tissue, most often that of the nose, ears, fingers, or toes, resulting from prolonged exposure to freezing or subfreezing temperatures.
- v. To injure or damage by freezing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A condition or the effect of being partly or slightly frozen, as a part of the body.
- To affect with or as with frost-bite; nip or wither, as with frost.
- To expose to the effect of frost or of a frosty atmosphere.
Wiktionary
- n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body.
- v. transitive To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
- v. intransitive To engage in winter sailboating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears, fingers, toes, or nose. Severe frostbite can lead to the loss of fingers or toes.
- v. To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
WordNet 3.0
- n. destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene
Etymologies
- frost + bite (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My hands and face were burning with that "frostbite is just around the corner" sensation after only a few minutes.”
“Skin destroyed by frostbite is completely black and looks loose and flayed, as if burnt.”
“Exposure," the chapter about hypothermia and frostbite, is quite graphic and medically detailed in its depiction of exactly what happens to the body as it freezes to death.”
“I tried to describe exactly what happens to the human body as it freezes to death -- as well as the processes that result in frostbite.”
“And that's to say nothing of the half-sunburn I've got going, not to be confused with Jason's frostbite, which is now half peeled away thank goodness, or the problem with my tender tootsies that has got me better than halfway to disability.”
“Brandon's manner was so matter-of-fact, she knew he must be serious, even though she had never heard of anything called frostbite before.”
“Suffering environmental injuries in a combat zone, such as frostbite or sunburn”
“Injuries such as frostbite, hypothermia, and others are linked to body cooling.”
Potential impacts of direct mechanisms of climate change on human health in the Arctic
“Direct impacts of winter warming in some regions may include a reduction in cold-induced injuries such as frostbite and hypothermia and a reduction in cold stress.”
“I'm assuming the blogger monkeys changed it to "frostbite" just in time.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frostbite’.
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Fake Minerals & Gemstones
dogbite, oliverstone, priceisrite, flapis faloozi, uptite, spondulikite, flashlite, crumpetwithvegemite, samsonite, goodnite, tennisquartz, fallfromagreathite and 101 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
Winter Words
Words that have to do with the Winter season.
snow, coat, hibernation, ice, christmas, cold, sleet, hail, december, january, evergreen, frost and 11 more...
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Bite me
bite, bitewing, biteplate, backbite, checkbite, biter, exhibited, sound bite, snakebite, rat-bite fever, overbite, debited and 32 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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Favoritter
tiptoe, paw, flutter, winged, onto, present, glisten, bitter, molecule, forever and a day, collapse, drift and 23 more...
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Sled Dogs!
malamute, husky, wheel dog, lead dog, gee, haw, sled, line, hike, mush, on by, gang line and 31 more...
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illness, owies and other boo-boos
antidote, laudanum, frostbite, plasters, pallor, dying, demented, drugged, suicidal, mortal, autopsy, delirious and 9 more...
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white winter hymnal
pruinose, apricity, brumal, mist, frost, frostbite, christmas, North Pole, snow angel, crisp, sharp, bare and 1 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for frostbite.
oroboros What you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire? See snowpire. Jan 6, 2010