Frore
adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of freeze archaic, form-of, participle, past, rare
"And down below all fretted and frore, Were wrought the coral and the madrepore, […]"
Adjective
- 1 Extremely cold; frozen. archaic
"We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air."
Adjective
- 1 very cold wordnet
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air."
Etymology
From Middle English frore, froare, yfrore, froren, from Old English froren, ġefroren (“frozen”), from Proto-West Germanic *froʀan, from Proto-Germanic *fruzanaz (“frozen”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”). Doublet of frorn and frozen.