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frost

2 verb
     
Related topics: Cooking
frost2 [transitive]
DFC especially American English to cover a cake with a mixture of powdery sugar and liquid [= ice British English]

frost over/up

phrasal verb
to become covered in frost:
Overnight all the windowpanes had frosted over.
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