Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun frost

4 senses of frost

Sense 1
frost, hoar, hoarfrost, rime -- (ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside))
       => ice, water ice -- (water frozen in the solid state; "Americans like ice in their drinks")

Sense 2
freeze, frost -- (weather cold enough to cause freezing)
       => cold weather -- (a period of unusually cold weather)

Sense 3
frost, icing -- (the formation of frost or ice on a surface)
       => freeze, freezing -- (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)

Sense 4
Frost, Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost -- (United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963))
       INSTANCE OF=> poet -- (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb frost

4 senses of frost

Sense 1
frost, ice -- (decorate with frosting; "frost a cake")
       => cover -- (provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers")

Sense 2
frost -- (provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance; "frost the glass"; "she frosts her hair")
       => cover -- (provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers")

Sense 3
frost -- (cover with frost; "ice crystals frosted the glass")
       => cover -- (provide with a covering or cause to be covered; "cover her face with a handkerchief"; "cover the child with a blanket"; "cover the grave with flowers")

Sense 4
frost -- (damage by frost; "The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown")
       => damage -- (inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree")

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