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单词 frostbite
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frostbiten.

Brit. /ˈfrɒs(t)bʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈfrɔs(t)ˌbaɪt/, /ˈfrɑs(t)ˌbaɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: frost n., bite n., frostbite v.
Etymology: < frost n. + bite n., after frostbite v. Compare earlier frostbiting n. and frostnip n., and also earlier frostbitten adj., frostbit adj.
1. Injury to body tissues caused by exposure to extreme cold, typically affecting the extremities and often involving only the skin, which initially becomes white and hard, but in severe cases resulting in gangrene of deeper tissues and loss of the affected parts. Also: an instance, case, or area of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > frost-bite
frostbiting1562
frostnip1618
frostbite1798
1798 Weekly Mag. 31 Mar. 264/2 Blackhead's Essence of Pitchfork, An easy, effectual, and radical cure for lock-jam, gout, broken shins,..frost-bite, [etc.].
1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 57 Inflammation accompanying the state which is usually denominated frost-bite.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 44 Some of the sailors suffered considerably from partial frost-bites.
1876 A. Arnold in Contemp. Rev. June 42 One does not look for frostbite in Ispahan.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England i. 3 A good way of checking the alarming wastage of man-power through influenza, frost-bite, and trench-feet, with all their accompanying opportunities for malingering, would be to house the front-line troops in pill-boxes.
1974 R. Swale Children of Cape Horn (1975) xxiv. 218 In spite of being capsized and dismasted in the Southern Ocean and suffering badly from frostbite he had managed to jury-rig the boat and get to port.
2011 Time Out N.Y. 15 Dec. 36/1 The North Pole is a terrible place to try pole dancing—frostbite in some very delicate places would be a constant issue.
2. Damage caused to plants or their parts by exposure to extreme cold; an instance of this. Now rare.
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1846 Amer. Agriculturist Aug. 247/2 What is Blight?—It is a sun-stroke, or a frost-bite, a plague of insects, or of fungi, [etc.].
1865 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1861–4 5 570 The bitter, smoky taste..arises wholly from frost-bite.
1870 Country Gentleman's Mag. 4 431/1 But suppose a great proportion of the shoots are taken off or disbudded, and a frost-bite should overtake the remainder?
1931 Bull. Misc. Information (Royal Bot. Gardens, Kew) 166 The diseased appearance of some of the branches..was found to be the result of frost bite.
1992 Amer. Orchid Soc. Bull. 61 375/2 I do not know what to do with cattleyas that get frost bite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

frostbitev.

Brit. /ˈfrɒs(t)bʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈfrɔs(t)ˌbaɪt/, /ˈfrɑs(t)ˌbaɪt/
Forms: see frost n. and bite v.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: frost n., bite v.
Etymology: < frost n. + bite v. Compare frostbiting adj., frostbitten adj., and frostbiting n.
1. transitive. To damage, injure, or kill by exposure to extreme cold; spec. to affect (a person, plant, part of the body, etc.) with frostbite; (also) to acquire frostbite in (a part of the body). Frequently in passive.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > make cold [verb (transitive)] > affect or injure with intense cold or frost
frostbite1574
frostnip1600
singe1600
freezea1616
frost1623
touch1794
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > afflict with or cause a skin disorder [verb (transitive)] > frost-bite
frostbite1856
1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Job lxi. 287/2 If his floures bee frostbitten, or if anye tempest light vpon them, all is caste downe.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 62v Those blossomes which peepe foorth in the beginning of the Spring, are frost-bitten and die, ere they can come to be fruite.
1622 ‘Jack Dawe’ Vox Graculi 10 The weather likewise shall be so vnseasonably cold, that diuers for feare of being frost-bit, shall craftily sit all day at Cardes and Tables.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner i. iii. vii. 135 All their Peach-Blossoms are frost-bitten every year.
1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 13 The Weather was so sharp as several of the People were Frost-bit.
1751 C. Gist Jrnl. 20 Dec. (1893) 72 My Son had the Misfortune to have his Feet frost-bitten.
1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain II. 444 A traveller who passes through a country in which the maize has been frost bit finds neither egg nor poultry.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 403 Morton has frost-bitten both his heels.
1916 G. Taylor With Scott iv. 202 Conduction along a big nail in the leather boots had frost-bitten my toe.
1986 N. A. M. Rodger Wooden World (1988) ii. 54 Captain Stancombe..had narrowly escaped when his ship was burnt under him, broken his skull in a fall, and frostbitten his ears conning his ship among icebergs.
2010 P. L. Headlund Sexy at Sixty iii. 17 The ice applied directly to his skin the night before had frost bitten his skin.
2. transitive. To have a chilling, numbing, or hurtful effect on (a feeling, the heart, etc.). Usually in passive. Cf. frost n. 3.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions
stupefy?a1425
dullc1440
benumbc1485
slumber?1533
extinguish1540
extinct1542
numb1561
damp1570
hebetate1574
daunt1581
frostbite1593
hebete1597
blunt1600
unedgea1625
engross1626
astonish1635
consopite1647
bate1649
opiate1650
blura1653
hebescate1657
torpefy1808
dozena1810
dullify1838
hebetize1845
chloroform1849
narcotize1852
sodden1863
vastate1892
the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make cold
coolc1330
frostbite1593
disinflame?1611
freezea1616
colden1860
1593 T. Lodge Phillis sig. Lv Suborner of contempt, lasciuious blowse, By whom my ioyes were blasted and frost-bitten.
1611 J. Montague in T. Coryate Crudities sig. g3v Emilia faire thou didst fro'st-bit, And shee inflamed thy melting wit.
1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 905 O that you could feel the wretchedness of having your heart starved by selfishness and frost-bitten by moral frigidity!
1872 ‘G. Hamilton’ Woman's Worth & Worthlessness iii. 50 My budding ambition was instantaneously frostbitten by her branching off into a disquisition on sausage-meat.
1913 Amer. Mag. Oct. 17/2 I guess we're old enough so's our morals won't get frostbitten by this.
2012 I. Tregillis Coldest War iii. 90 Better than staying at home, frostbitten by Liv's icy hatred.
3. transitive. To turn (the hair) white or grey; to make hoary. Cf. frost v. 2. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [verb (transitive)] > white
frost1596
frostbite?1605
hoar1605
snow1605
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)]
whiteOE
emblanch1393
blank1484
whiten1552
frost1596
albify1599
frostbite?1605
hoar1605
dealbate1623
impearl1640
marble1658
bewhite1678
whiten1699
rewhiten1725
bewhiten1810
ermine1825
powder1890
?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. H2 Many Winters haue Frost-bit my Haires.
4. transitive (reflexive). To invigorate oneself by exposure to cold air. Cf. frostbiting n. 2, frosting n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > refresh or invigorate [verb (transitive)] > specific
coolc1330
aventc1440
recreatec1530
frostbite1667
over-inform1681
1667 S. Pepys Diary 2 Jan. (1974) VIII. 1 My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite themselfs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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