ice up
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ice up
1. To become covered in or coated with ice. If the temperature drops any more, the steps will definitely ice up overnight. We should put down some salt and gravel so the steps don't ice up during the night. The lake doesn't usually start icing up until November or December.
2. To cause something to become covered in or coated with ice. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "ice" and "up." The frigid temperature iced the steps up overnight. Hey, how long have these vegetables been in here? Because the freezer's iced them up. Ugh, the cold winter weather has iced up my windshield yet again. I'm so ready for summer!
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ice something up
to cause something to become icy. I hope the cold doesn't ice the roads up. The wind and rain iced up the roads.
ice up
to become icy. Are the roads icing up?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
ice up
v.
1. To become covered with ice: The road has iced up, so be careful.
2. To cause something to become covered with ice: The storm has iced up the bridges. The cold weather iced the pond up, so we decided to go skating.
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