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gla⋅ci⋅ate

   [gley-shee-eyt, -see-]
verb, -at⋅ed, -at⋅ing.
–verb (used with object)
1. to cover with ice or glaciers.
2. to affect by glacial action.
–verb (used without object)
3. to become frozen or covered with ice or glaciers.
Origin:
1615–25; < L glaciātus (ptp. of glaciāre to freeze), equiv. to glaci(ēs) ice + -ātus -ate 1
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gla·ci·ate     (glā'shē-āt', -sē-)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   gla·ci·at·ed, gla·ci·at·ing, gla·ci·ates
    1. To cover with ice or a glacier.
    2. To subject to or affect by glacial action.
  2. To freeze.

[Latin glaciāre, glaciāt-, to freeze, from glaciēs, ice; see gel- in Indo-European roots.]
gla'ci·a'tion n.
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glaciate

verb
1. cover with ice or snow or a glacier; "the entire area was glaciated" 
2. become frozen and covered with glaciers 

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Glaciate

Gla"ci*ate\, v. i. [L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice.] To turn to ice.

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Glaciate

Gla"ci*ate\, v. t. 1. To convert into, or cover with, ice.

2. (Geol.) To produce glacial effects upon, as in the scoring of rocks, transportation of loose material, etc.

Glaciated rocks, rocks whose surfaces have been smoothed, furrowed, or striated, by the action of ice.

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