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Frost-bound

Definition: Frost-bound

Frost-bound

Adjective

1. (of the ground) made hard by frost.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "frost-bound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Frost-bound

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Cold	Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Frost-bound

Language		Translations for "frost-bound"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i ngrirë (congealed, dull, freezing, frosted, frozen, glace, glassy, lame, numb, prim, starchy, stiff, stilted). (various references)

Bulgarian		скован от студ, скован от мраз, скован от лед (icebound). (various references)

Czech		zamrzlý (frozen). (various references)

Hungarian		befagyott (frosted, froze, ice-bound). (various references)

Pig Latin		ost-boundfray

Russian		скованный морозом. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaleđen (frozen, icebound). (various references)

Swedish		hårdfrusen. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Frost-bound

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-f-n-o-o-r-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: softbound.
	-2 letters: bourdons.
	-3 letters: bourdon, boutons, burtons, obtunds, orotund, sunroof, unroofs, unroots.
	-4 letters: borons, boston, bounds, bourns, bouton, broods, brunts, bundts, burton, dobros, dobson, donors, donuts, doofus, doubts, fondus, founds, founts, fronds, fronts, futons, nodous, obtund, odours, robots, robust, rondos, rotund, rounds, stound, stroud, suborn, tondos, torous, turbos, unroof, unroot, untrod.
	-5 letters: bonds, bonus, boons.
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Alternative Orthography: Frost-bound

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 72 6F 73 74 2D 62 6F 75 6E 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110010 01101111 01110011 01110100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#45 &#98 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 006F 0073 0074 002D 0062 006F 0075 006E 0064

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4084818586156881878070

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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