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frosted

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Frost  (frôst, frst), Robert Lee 1874-1963.
American poet whose deceptively simple works, often set in rural New England, explore the relationships between individuals and between people and nature. His collections include A Boy's Will (1913) and In the Clearing (1962). He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943.

frost  (frôst, frst)
n.
1. A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.
2. A temperature low enough to cause freezing.
3. The process of freezing.
4. A cold or icy manner.
v. frost·ed, frost·ing, frosts
v.tr.
1. To cover with frost.
2. To damage or kill by frost.
3. To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.
4. To cover or decorate with icing: frost a cake.
5. Slang To anger or upset: What really frosted me about the incident was the fact that you lied.
v.intr.
To become covered with or as if with frost.

[Middle English, from Old English; see preus- in Indo-European roots.]

frosted [ˈfrɒstɪd]
adj
1. covered or injured by frost
2. (Cookery) covered with icing, as a cake
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Ceramics) (of glass, etc.) having a surface roughened, as if covered with frost, to prevent clear vision through it
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.frosted - (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass"
opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"
Translations
frosted [ˈfrɒstɪd]
A. ADJ (esp US) [cake] → escarchado
B. CPD frosted glass Nvidrio m or cristal m esmerilado
frosted [ˈfrɒstɪd] adj (mainly US) [cake] → glacé(e)
frosted glass n (for window)verre m dépoli
frosted
adj
(= frost-covered) grass, trees, roofsvon Raureif bedeckt; windows, windscreenvereist
(fig) eye shadow, nail varnish, lipstickmetallisch
(esp US: = iced) → mit Zuckerguss überzogen, glasiert; (= sugared) fruitmit Zucker bestreut
frosted [ˈfrɒstɪd] adj (glass) → smerigliato/a (esp Am) (cake) → glassato/a
frosted [ˈfrɒstɪd] adj (glass) → smerigliato/a (esp Am) (cake) → glassato/a


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If people cannot be assured of graves, I fear they will no longer die, and the best interests of civilisation will wither like a frosted leaf.
Some had raisins for eyes and currant buttons on their clothes; others had eyes of cloves and legs of stick cinnamon, and many wore hats and bonnets frosted pink and green.
"In November I sometimes feel as if spring could never come again," she sighed, grieving over the hopeless unsightliness of her frosted and bedraggled flower-plots.
 
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