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81foul — adj 1. contaminated, polluted, infected, adulterated, impure, defiled, tainted; spoiled, rotten, moldy, decayed, decomposed, carious, fetid, putrid, putrescent, putrefactive; ill smelling, evil smelling, Sl. funky, rancid, stinking, stinky, rank …
82icy — adj 1. frozen, frore, frosty, rimy, sleety, glacial, ice bound; glazed, glassy, slippery, slick. 2. freezing, gelid, arctic, ice cold. See ice cold (def1). 3. passionless, unemotional, distant, ice cold. See ice cold (def.2) …
83stormy — adj 1. tempestuous, violent, wild, procel lous, turbulent, squally; windy, gusty, blustery, blusterous, howling, roaring, raging; rainy, damp, raw, sleety, snowy, icy, cold; bad, foul, inclement; bleak, gray, overcast, threatening. 2. violent,… …
84sleet — /slit / (say sleet) noun 1. snow or hail and rain falling together. 2. Chiefly US the frozen coating on trees, wires, and other bodies that sometimes forms when rain or sleet falls at a low temperature. 3. frozen or partly frozen rain. –verb (i)… …
85slattjō- Ⅱ — *slattjō , *slattjōn germ.?, schwach. Femininum (n): nhd. Schneeregen; ne. sleety rain (Neutrum); Etymologie: unbekannt; Literatur: Falk/Torp 535 …
86slautō- — *slautō , *slautōn, *slauta , *slautan germ., Substantiv: nhd. Schneeregen, Schloße; ne. sleety rain (Neutrum); Rekontruktionsbasis: ae.?, mhd.; Etymologie: s. ing. *sleu ?, Adjektiv …
87cold — [adj1] chilly, freezing algid, arctic, below freezing, below zero, benumbed, biting, bitter, blasting, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, chill, chilled, cool, crisp, cutting, frigid, frore, frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, have goose bumps*, hawkish,… …
88sleet — ► NOUN 1) rain containing some ice, or snow melting as it falls. 2) US a thin coating of ice formed by sleet or rain freezing on coming into contact with a cold surface. ► VERB (it sleets, it is sleeting, etc.) ▪ sleet falls. DERIVATIVES sleety …
89sleet — [slēt] n. [ME slete < OE * sliete, akin to Ger schlosse, hail < IE base * (s)leu , loose, lax > SLUR, SLUG1] 1. partly frozen rain, or rain that freezes as it falls 2. transparent or translucent precipitation in the form of pellets of… …
90sleet — n. & v. n. 1 a mixture of snow and rain falling together. 2 hail or snow melting as it falls. 3 US a thin coating of ice. v.intr. (prec. by it as subject) sleet falls (it is sleeting; if it sleets). Derivatives: sleety adj. Etymology: ME prob. f …
