Definitions
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- adjective Covered in
frost - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective covered with frost
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Examples
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Bars, concerts & festivals shows, “antros” & restaurants (that kind of rimed yay) the movies, coffee shops & sweet16s everything was cancelled to keep us safe
Global Voices in English » World Videos: “Swine Flu” Perspectives, Humor and a Grain of Salt. 2009
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But she also pictured Flossie, face nose-strapped and frost-rimed, stumbling wearily behind the dogs.
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They were large-knuckled, sinewy and malformed by labour, rimed with callouses, the nails blunt and broken, and with here and there cuts and bruises, healed and healing, such as are common to the hands of hard-working men.
SAMUEL 2010
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A wolfish head, wistful-eyed and frost-rimed, thrust aside the tent-flaps.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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The rimed norn, now icebrood, raised a deep-throated war cry and ran at the heroes.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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Through the scope, they seemed less brilliant, rimed with pus, the eye folds crinkled with age.
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Looked away for half a minute, no more than that - looked out over the tumble of grey salt-rimed boulders on the bleak little beach, watched the gentle waves kiss the shore, and when he looked back, there was one wife less than there should have been.
Thor's Day lynxreign 2009
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There were chuckles, throttled in gurgling throats, and winks brushed away with the frost which rimed the eyelashes, as the men climbed the ice - notched bank and started across the street to the Post.
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Looked away for half a minute, no more than that - looked out over the tumble of grey salt-rimed boulders on the bleak little beach, watched the gentle waves kiss the shore, and when he looked back, there was one wife less than there should have been.
Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009
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The rimed norn, now icebrood, raised a deep-throated war cry and ran at the heroes.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011
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