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rotten ice
noun
- ice pitted or honeycombed from melting.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rotten ice1
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Example Sentences
From roaring avalanches to rock falls and rotten ice, Sher had already imagined a dozen ways to die on Nanga Parbat.
This knocked them out of their course, and upset them into the rotten ice of the brook.
Rotten ice is quickly detected and marked with a sign bearing the word “Danger.”
Rapid travelling was in some places impossible, for fear of running into a bit of rotten ice.
Little on little the horses pull up, and stop at last not a hunder' feet from the great crack and the rotten ice.
He would have rushed blindly out on the rotten ice, barehanded and alone, had the others not halted him.
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