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superblizzard en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /suːpəɹˈblɪ.zəd/

Etymology

From super- + blizzard.

Meanings

1. (rare) A very severe blizzard.
   • In The Day After Tomorrow, New York City is first flooded by a giant wave and then freeze-dried by a superblizzard. 2004 May 17, Lev Grossman, “Hollywood's Global Warming”, in time.com, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2016:
   • But standing in the middle of a superblizzard and allowing himself to be pelted by supersonic stainless steel ball bearings, that was something else. 2003, Ben Bova, Saturn: A Novel of the Ringed Planet, Volume 13, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 300:
   • The North Carolina mountain country is superb, sensational, beautiful and beneficent; there are none of your wild 100-mile-an-hour Mt. Washington superblizzards here. 1975, Ski, page 89:
   • Paralyzed by the superblizzards: 774 1998, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Richard Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 669:
   • The anchorwoman said meteorlogists were worried by this unusual convergence of cold and hot air masses, feared this new possibility everyone was talking about, the superblizzard. 2019, Scott Mackay, Omega Sol, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incorporated, →ISBN:

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