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snow out en · VERB
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) To cover with snow.
The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:
1855, Charles Dickens, “The Guest”, in The Holly-Tree Inn:
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(passive, regional) To prevent (an event) from occurring because of snow.
It snowed during the second week of February, snowed Thursday and Friday, snowed out the Friday night basketball game with Bethel Christian Academy, snowed until Saturday morning, then turned extremely cold
2003, David Davis, Of Preachers and Pagans:
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