Definitions for frostbite

frostbite frost·bite

Spelling: [frawst-bahyt, frost-]
IPA: /ˈfrɔstˌbaɪt, ˈfrɒst-/

Frostbite is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 466 anagrams from letters in frostbite (befiorstt).

Definitions for frostbite

noun

  1. injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.

verb (used with object)

  1. to injure by frost or extreme cold.

Origin of frostbite

First recorded in 1605-15; frost + bite

Examples for frostbite

He used opiates, but the pain, after a frostbite is thawed, is that which follows burning.

Except for a touch of frostbite on his toes and fingers, Barrent was all right.

In a fall show dubbed "frostbite," Jenden sent cool, sleek concoctions down the runway.

Pymia and frostbite were the other chief causes of mortality.

They can also give you frostbite on your face or even kill you.

She furnished Ida with a fur coat and gloves that secured her from frostbite.

They had not been able to frostbite her yet because she had been too young; but they would get her presently.

For this reason we believe that scurvy may predispose to frostbite.

Let's hope he didn't get frostbite - here's the science of getting naked in antarctica.

Some typical cases of frostbite were grotesque in their ghastliness.

Word Value for frostbite
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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