icebound

[ ahys-bound ]
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adjective
  1. held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.

  2. obstructed or shut off by ice: an icebound harbor.

Origin of icebound

1
First recorded in 1650–60; ice + -bound1

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How to use icebound in a sentence

  • This may be owing to the soft brook banks and their aquatic life, when the rest of the fields are icebound.

    Poachers and Poaching | John Watson
  • When spring comes smiling o'er the earth, she breathes on the icebound waters, and they flow anew.

  • In this Arctic expedition he underwent the experiences common to all who tempt those icebound seas.

    The Life of Nelson, Vol. I (of 2) | A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
  • The thaw was over, there had been a spell of cold weather, and Deerfield was icebound.

  • Noon saw the traveller in an “up-and-down” country intersected by icebound streams and snow-laden hollows.

    The Hound From The North | Ridgwell Cullum

British Dictionary definitions for icebound

icebound

/ (ˈaɪsˌbaʊnd) /


adjective
  1. covered or made immobile by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship

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