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Glaciate

Glaciate Meaning & Definition
Glaciate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Glaciate?

[v] become frozen and covered with glaciers
[v] cover with ice or snow or a glacier; "the entire area was glaciated"

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See Also | cover | freeze | spread over

Glaciate In Webster's Dictionary

\Gla"ci*ate\, v. i. [L. glaciatus, p. p. of glaciare to freeze, fr. glacies ice.] To turn to ice.
\Gla"ci*ate\, v. t. 1. To convert into, or cover with, ice. 2. (Geol.) 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.

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