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  • adjective Nipped, withered, or injured, by frost or freezing.

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  • adjective injured by freezing or partial freezing

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Examples

  • His cheekbones and nose, frost-bitten again and again, were turned bloody-black and hideous.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • "The pole yes," says Scott with a stiff frost-bitten upper lip.

    The disquieting sound of The Great White Silence Pascal Wyse 2010

  • The old roystering crowd was there, and, as of old, three frost-bitten sailors were there, fresh from the long traverse from the Arctic, survivors of a ship's company of seventy-four.

    The Wit of Porportuk 2010

  • Brambles sent spiny stems snaking over the open surfaces, and weeds found rootholds in the gaps between frost-bitten edges, before collapsing in the dieback of autumn.

    Country diary: Bedfordshire Derek Niemann 2010

  • The winter winds howled across the frost-bitten ground of St. Thomas Cemetery in Shrewsbury, England, the swirling snowflakes feeling like shards of glass as they blew against her skin.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Their journey -- going where and for what purpose we are not told -- takes them through "the dismal vastness of the Northland" and all in the party are starving, frost-bitten, and close to perishing.

    “There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.” 2008

  • Just below the booming Yukon town, Clay climbs the scarred and gullied "slide" of Moosehide Mountain and, with his body chilling, his fingers frost-bitten, he slips and slides down in a small avalanche, then regains his balance and attains the summit.

    “. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008

  • Another man, Tom Daw, arrives, half-frozen, frost-bitten after a three-day journey, needing a doctor to attend a man who was attacked by a cougar up the Little Peco, a hundred miles away.

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • The winter winds howled across the frost-bitten ground of St. Thomas Cemetery in Shrewsbury, England, the swirling snowflakes feeling like shards of glass as they blew against her skin.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • The winter winds howled across the frost-bitten ground of St. Thomas Cemetery in Shrewsbury, England, the swirling snowflakes feeling like shards of glass as they blew against her skin.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

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