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icebound

/ahys-bound/US // ˈaɪsˌbaʊnd //UK // (ˈaɪsˌbaʊnd) //

冰封,结冰,冰封天下,冰冻三尺非一日之寒

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : held fast or hemmed in by ice; frozen in: an icebound ship.
    • : obstructed or shut off by ice: an icebound harbor.

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Examples

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

  • 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 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.