Frore

adj, verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 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. 1
    Extremely cold; frozen. archaic

    "We die, even as the winds of Autumn fade, Expiring in the frore and foggy air."

Adjective
  1. 1
    very cold wordnet

Synonyms

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brickcoldfrosty

Antonyms

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hot

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"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.

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