Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Killed by the cold of winter, as wheat; impaired in flavor or condition by cold or ice, as oysters; blasted by cold weather, as a plant.
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- adjective US Of crops, having been killed by winter weather.
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Examples
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Left-over, winter-killed berries and carrion are the primary food sources for emerging bears in springtime ...
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Left-over, winter-killed berries and carrion are the primary food sources for emerging bears in springtime ...
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Maybe they don't want to compete with the ravens for winter-killed meals?
The redpolls abideth forever jhetley 2009
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They have a couple of winter-killed deer lying about on the blood-stained snow right now, and the bones get rearranged by coyotes and ravens on a regular basis.
Caw caw caw jhetley 2008
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All the brown grass and dried leaves from last fall and winter-killed scrub and old coniferous needles, tinder for a careless cigarette butt or sparks along the tracks from a passing train.
Patriots' Day (observed) jhetley 2008
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His eyes began to water and he rushed across the patio through a cluster of winter-killed potted plants and tore open the French doors.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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His eyes began to water and he rushed across the patio through a cluster of winter-killed potted plants and tore open the French doors.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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When her bag was full, she tied it off, put it in the basket, and went in search of flea-wort, a kind of shelf-fungus that grew on the fallen bodies of winter-killed trees.
Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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The trees and brush closest to the actual destruction looked more as if they had been winter-killed than burned, but would extreme cold have the same effect as fire and create an ash-like dust?
Timegod's World Modesitt, L. E. 1992
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They headed out of the little valley, and the trail became much easier; the hills now rolling rather than craggy, and covered with winter-killed grass.
Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989
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