huurruttaa — meaning in English

English meaning

• frost noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
• rime noun Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).

Senses

huurruttaa is used for these senses in English:

• frost (transitive) To cover with frost.
• rime To cover (something) with rime (noun sense 1 or sense 3.1) or (loosely) hoar frost.
• rime (intransitive) Sometimes followed by up: of a thing: to become covered with rime or (loosely) hoar frost.

frost — full definition

1. noun A thin layer of ice crystals that forms on surfaces exposed to freezing air.
2. noun Freezing weather cold enough to produce this layer of ice.
3. verb To cover a cake or other baked good with icing.
4. verb To become covered with a thin layer of ice.

rime — full definition

1. noun Archaic in the form rimes: originally, any frozen dew forming a white deposit on exposed surfaces; hoar frost (sense 1).
2. noun A film or slimy coating.
3. noun White hair as an indication of old age.
4. noun Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog on to a cold surface.

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