Definitions for snows

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snows snow

Spelling: [snoh]

IPA: /snoʊ/

Snows is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in snows (nossw).

Definitions for snows

noun

1. Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air. Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
2. these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
3. the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
4. something resembling a layer of these flakes in whiteness, softness, or the like:
5. Literary. white blossoms. the white color of snow.
6. Slang. cocaine or heroin.
7. white spots or bands on a television screen caused by a weak signal. Compare hash1 (def 5).

Verb phrases

1. snow under, to cover with or bury in snow. to overwhelm with a larger amount of something than can be conveniently dealt with. to defeat overwhelmingly.

verb (used with object)

1. to let fall as or like snow.
2. Slang. to make an overwhelming impression on: to persuade or deceive:

verb (used without object)

1. to send down snow; fall as snow.
2. to descend like snow.

Origin of snows

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English snāw; cognate with Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snǣr, Gothic snaiws, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Greek níps (accusative nípha), OCS sn

Examples for snows

The neighborhood, the township, and the world had been snowed in.

Four years ago, it snowed on the morning of the inauguration.

We are snowed in and you would not have the relaxation that you need after your long weeks of study.

Officials said there's usually an armed officer on campus but the person wasn't there because he was snowed in.

That three miles is on the divide, and by the time we get there it will be snowed up worse nor this.

But she busted in on him there and just piled into him and snowed him under.

The teams had been snowed in at the Novo base camp for several days and the whole expedition was in doubt at one stage.

Taft Union High School does employ an armed officer on campus, but he was snowed in on Thursday and did not make it to work.

It snowed and stormed, and she was allowed to shiver on the platform.

Its olive-green fuselage stood out against the snowed peaks.