GLACIATE

glaciate

(verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers

glaciate

(verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier; “the entire area was glaciated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

glaciate (third-person singular simple present glaciates, present participle glaciating, simple past and past participle glaciated)

To cover with ice or a glacier

To erode with a glacier

To freeze

Anagrams

• caligate

Source: Wiktionary

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

Definition: To turn to ice.

Gla"ci*ate, v. t.

1. To convert into, or cover with, ice.

2. (Geol.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition