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befrost en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“on, upon, all over”) + frost.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To place frost upon; cover with frost
   • […] The faint wind of your favour, that but for a moment blew, with grief has part befrosted the small sedge of the eaves. 1934, Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, volumes 1-6, page 131:
   • Yellow-ochre is the universal colour, and mealy granules befrost the caps (under 1′′ broad) and stems up to their friable, indefinite rings. 2014, James H. Willis, Victorian Toadstools and Mushrooms:
   • She came down creeping here to the black arms waiting now to the warm heart waiting rime of alien dreams befrosts her rich brown face She came down creeping […] 2015, Maya Angelou, The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou, page 22:

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